T-Mobile i Verizon zvýšily výhled na rok 2026, ale s odlišnou strategií: T-Mobile sází na růst zákazníků, Verizon na dividendový výnos. T-Mobile navíc zvýšil schválený program návratu kapitálu na 18,2 miliardy USD.
T-Mobile and Verizon both raised 2026 guidance, but they are chasing completely opposite strategies to win the same industry. Which approach actually holds up depends on what kind of investor is doing the judging.
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T-Mobile US (NASDAQ:TMUS | TMUS Price Prediction) and Verizon (NYSE:VZ) raised 2026 guidance in late July earnings. T-Mobile asks investors to pay for subscriber and market share increases. Verizon asks them to collect a large dividend while its turnaround plays out.
Premium Plans Lift T-Mobile as Verizon Stops Buying Customers At T-Mobile, postpaid service revenue rose 12.6% to $15.85 billion. More than 60% of new customers chose premium plans. Port-in ARPAs ran about 20% above port-outs. The UScellular deal opens rural markets where T-Mobile holds 24% of homes. CEO Srini Gopalan: “We’re just getting started.”
Verizon cut device subsidies. Wireless equipment revenue fell nearly 20% and total revenue slid 0.7%. Postpaid phone net additions reached 184,000, versus a 9,000 loss a year earlier. Churn improved to 0.92%. CEO Dan Schulman: “The era of just the free handset, that’s gone right now.” Fiber connections reached 10.9 million, up 43.3%.
Business Driver T-Mobile Verizon Growth Engine Postpaid wireless, 5G broadband Fiber, combined packages 2026 Capex About $10.0B $16.0B to $16.5B Buybacks Power T-Mobile While Dividends Anchor Verizon T-Mobile raised its 2026 shareholder return authorization to $18.2 billion from $14.6 billion and bought back $2.2 billion in the quarter. Shares are down 17.64% this year. With a yield of only 2.52%, the stock depends on growth.
Verizon’s 6.08% yield comes from a $0.7075 quarterly dividend. Buybacks are limited at $4.5 billion. After the Frontier deal, net unsecured debt rose to 2.5x adjusted EBITDA from 2.2x. Shares are up 18.41% year to date.
Lens T-Mobile Verizon Forward P/E 12x 9x Hold Ratings 5 15 Verizon Must Turn Discipline Into Revenue by Year-End Verizon expects mobility and broadband service revenue growth to speed up to about 3% in Q3 and 4% in Q4. Wireless ARPA fell 1.4% to $168.35. At T-Mobile, watch whether service revenue growth holds near the 6% forecast for Q3.
Matching Each Carrier to the Investor It Fits T-Mobile suits growth investors seeking subscriber increases. Analysts agree, with 9 Strong Buy and 14 Buy ratings. Postpaid churn rising to 0.99% warrants caution.
Verizon fits income investors. Its Hold ratings suggest Wall Street wants proof the turnaround works. If ARPA keeps falling, the dividend story weakens. If T-Mobile’s churn keeps rising, its higher valuation becomes harder to justify.
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SummaryLumentum's Q4 revenue surged 109% to $1.006 billion, while gross margin reached 50.4%, far earlier than management’s historical model implied.OCS revenue should exceed $100 million quarterly as Lumentum expands deeper into higher-value AI networking and systems infrastructure.Laser demand continues exceeding capacity, while 1.6T, CPO and external laser sources provide overlapping growth drivers through 2027 and 2028.LITE trades at 48 times FY1 earnings, but 156% forward EPS growth helps justify its premium valuation versus Coherent. IURII KRASILNIKOV/iStock via Getty Images
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AT&T tvrdí, že jeho snížená dividenda je nyní na silnějších základech: pokrytí je širší a cash flow pochází hlavně z konektivity, ne z mediálních aktiv.
AT&T cut its dividend in half back in 2022, and investors are still waiting to find out whether that painful reset actually fixed anything or just delayed a bigger problem.
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AT&T (NYSE:T | T Price Prediction) will pay its next $0.2775 quarterly dividend on November 2, 2026. That works out to $1.11 a year and a 4.53% yield. Its dividend has stayed flat since the April 13, 2022 ex-dividend date, when it dropped from $0.52. It has not been raised since. The cut came the same month AT&T spun WarnerMedia off and merged it with Discovery. So the company writing checks today is a different business, with different cash sources supporting the dividend.
Smaller Check, Wider Cushion In 2021, dividends of $15.068 billion took about 59% of operating cash flow left after capex. In 2025, AT&T paid $8.18 billion, roughly 49% of its $16.586 billion in free cash flow. In Q2 2026, the $1.976 billion dividend used about 42% of the $4.67 billion in free cash flow.
Wireless and Fiber Now Carry the Load The Advanced Connectivity segment brings in over 90% of service revenue and nearly all adjusted EBITDA. Last quarter AT&T added 432,000 postpaid phone subscribers, with churn at 0.86%. It also added 367,000 fiber customers, and 42.5% of its home internet customers now buy AT&T wireless as well. Management explained the logic on the earnings call:
“Our goal is not to maximize our crew of individual products, but instead to maximize total advanced connectivity service revenues in order to drive attractive returns on our investments in 5G and fiber.”
The old copper business is contracting quickly. Legacy service revenue fell 26%.
What Gets Paid Before Shareholders Do Several bills come first. Capital spending is guided to $23 billion to $24 billion this year. Total debt stands at $144 billion, and interest expense rose 13.8%. Net leverage (net debt divided by adjusted EBITDA) is 2.68x, and management expects it to climb to about 3.2x after the EchoStar (NASDAQ:SATS) spectrum deal. Dividends plus buybacks will total about $18 billion in 2026, which management called “essentially 100%” of its free cash flow outlook. CEO John Stankey explained why buybacks got a bigger share:
“I probably have a bias that says I’d like to buy more of it back because I think it’s incredibly undervalued.”
How Verizon and T-Mobile Price the Same Business Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) pays out more, at a 6.09% yield, but its quarterly revenue slid 0.7%. T-Mobile US (NASDAQ:TMUS) is the growth option. Its yield is just 2.5%, revenue grew 7.9%, and the stock trades at a forward P/E of 12. AT&T sits between the two, with 2.3% revenue growth and a forward P/E of about 10.
Answer for Investors Who Took the Cut The $1.11 dividend is on stronger ground than the old $0.52 quarterly payout was. Coverage is wider, and the cash comes from subscription connectivity rather than debt-funded media assets. Management has committed to holding the payout steady through 2028, with free cash flow guidance of $19 billion+ in 2027 and $21 billion+ in 2028. Buybacks are the shock buffer: they can be scaled back before the dividend is cut. The stock is down 7.78% over the past year, which shows investors want to see the growth delivered first.
One risk could undo this view. If free cash flow growth stalls just as Legacy EBITDA turns negative after 2027, leverage could stay near 3.2x instead of returning to the 2.5x target. That would leave the dividend competing with debt repayment for the same cash. The fourth quarter’s expected free cash flow recovery is the next checkpoint.
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Every major AI chip runs through one company's fabs, and its stock still trades cheaper than the customers that depend on it. Here is why analysts keep raising their targets despite a geopolitical sword hanging over the business.
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The 24/7 Wall St. price target for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE:TSM | TSM Price Prediction) is $531.86 over the next 12 months. This points to 16.53% upside from the current $456.41. Our model rates TSMC a buy with high confidence.
Metric Value Current Price $456.41 Price Target from 24/7 Wall St. $531.86 Upside/Downside 16.53% Recommendation BUY Confidence Level 90% TSMC makes the chips inside nearly every major AI accelerator, and its results show it. High-performance computing rose 20% quarter over quarter to 66% of Q2 revenue.
Management now expects 2026 revenue growth slightly above 40% in USD terms, up from close to 30% in January. Net income grew 77.4%, yet the stock trades at just 22x forward earnings.
Shares Up 51% in 2026 as 2nm Production Begins TSM has gained 2.19% over the past week, 10.17% over the past month and 51.32% year to date. Shares sit about 4.5% below the 52-week high of $477.71 and roughly 73% above the low of $264.34.
Q2 EPS of $4.31 beat the $3.87 consensus. TSMC has topped estimates in every quarter going back to early 2023. Revenue rose 36% to $40.20 billion, and 2nm launched at 3% of wafer revenue. August sales climbed 53.3% year over year. TSMC also raised its planned Arizona investment to $265 billion, and Barron’s reports it could spend even more.
Why Bulls See a Path to $620 The bull case hits $620.74, a 36.01% gain. The 2nm ramp drives this, with A14 entering production in 2027 offering 10% to 15% speed improvement over N2. Advanced packaging remains tight, supporting pricing power.
Management said “our conviction in the multi-year AI megatrend remains very high.” Wall Street agrees: 6 strong buy and 12 buy ratings against one hold, with a consensus target of $552.26.
Margin Dilution and Taiwan Risk Could Stall Gains The downside case is $443.67, or -2.79%. The 2nm ramp reduces gross margin by 3 to 4 percentage points, with overseas fabs adding more. The 2026 capital budget is $60 billion to $64 billion. Taiwan-China tensions and US export controls present risks.
Even the low end of Q3 gross margin guidance, 65%, is well above the long-term 56%+ target. Much margin pressure comes from capacity customers are asking for.
TSMC Trades Cheaper Than Its Biggest Customer Company Forward P/E Quarterly Revenue Growth (YoY) TSMC 22x 36.0% NVIDIA 25x 105.9% Intel 63x 25.4% ASML 29x 21.3% NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) is TSMC’s biggest advanced-node customer and trades at a higher multiple, but its growth flows into TSMC’s wafer orders.
Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) trades at 63x forward earnings despite trailing EPS of -$2.09.
ASML (NASDAQ:ASML) supplies the EUV tools TSMC needs yet trades at a higher multiple despite slower growth. At our target, TSMC would trade near 26x forward EPS, below ASML. The target looks reasonable against peers.
TSMC’s Valuation Edge Supports the Upside Case Our $531.86 target earns a buy rating and 90% confidence. TSMC’s lower valuation versus dependent companies weighs in its favor. Key signals to monitor include whether 2nm yields keep Q3 gross margin within guidance, along with any rise in cross-strait tensions or cuts to hyperscaler AI spending.
The same expansion feeding TSMC’s order book is also raised the power, cooling, and networking suppliers we profiled in a free report on seven AI infrastructure stocks that aren’t chipmakers. On balance, upside outweighs risks.
TSMC Price Prediction 2026-2030 Our model projects where TSMC could trade if current trends hold:
Year Price Target from 24/7 Wall St. 2026 $476.98 2027 $533.34 2028 $591.67 2029 $663.10 2030 $715.75 Contact [email protected] for any questions or corrections.
Spojené státy půjčí společnosti Vistra asi 4,2 miliardy USD na zvýšení výroby v jaderných elektrárnách. Úvěr má podpořit úpravy alespoň tří ze čtyř jaderných elektráren bez nových licencí.
The US will lend Vistra Corp (VST.N) about $4.2 billion to boost its nuclear power generation, a person familiar with the matter said on Saturday.
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright will make the announcement on Monday at Vistra's nuclear plant along Lake Erie in Ohio, said the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The loan would be used to boost power output, or "uprate" at least three of Vistra's four nuclear stations, which can be done without requiring new licenses from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
The Department of Energy and Vistra did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
According to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, utilities can uprate nuclear plants by refueling with slightly more enriched uranium, or a higher percentage of new fuel, or through major plant modifications such as the replacement of main turbines. Utilities since the 1970s have used uprates to generate more power from reactors, the NRC's website says. As of 2022 the agency had approved more than 170 uprates, according to the NRC.
Vistra has six reactors at four US plants that generate more than 6.5 gigawatts of electricity, enough to power about 3.25 million homes.
US power demand is growing for the first time in decades, driven by surging demand from the expansion of AI data centers, electrification of transportation and cryptocurrency mining.
President Donald Trump set a goal to quadruple US nuclear power capacity by 2050. The US Department of Energy has hundreds of billions of dollars in financing available from its loan office and Wright has said the bulk of that loan capacity will support nuclear power plants.
The Vistra news was first reported by Bloomberg.
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DigitalBridge Group je po akvizici přidružených společností SoftBank na cestě ke stažení preferenčních akcií DBRG.PR.H, DBRG.PR.I a DBRG.PR.J z obchodování. Pro držitele to znamená omezené okno pro reakci a horší likviditu.
SummaryDigitalBridge Group, Inc. is being acquired by a SoftBank affiliate, triggering the delisting of its preferred stocks, DBRG.PR.H, DBRG.PR.I, and DBRG.PR.J.Investors will have a limited window to act once the delisting is officially announced, impacting liquidity and exit options for these preferreds.DBRG manages approximately $121 billion, focusing on digital infrastructure assets across data centers, towers, fiber, small cells, and edge infrastructure.The company's global scale, sector specialization, and institutional capital access underpin its differentiated position in resilient, high-growth digital infrastructure markets.Since each investor has their own thoughts on delisted preferreds, I rated each as a Hold.Looking for more investing ideas like this one? Get them exclusively at iREIT®+HOYA Capital. Learn More » Parradee Kietsirikul/iStock via Getty Images
Introduction DigitalBridge Group, Inc. (DBRG) has been acquired by an affiliate of SoftBank Group Corp. (SFTBY) and has stated they will delist the following preferred stocks:
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Tractor Supply has raised its dividend every year for 17 straight years, but two consecutive earnings misses, a gutted outlook, and a stock down more than a third raise a pointed question about whether the rural retailer's cash flow can…
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Tractor Supply (NASDAQ:TSCO | TSCO Price Prediction) raised its quarterly dividend 4.3% to $0.24 in January, its 17th consecutive year of increases. Since then the company has missed earnings estimates twice, cut its fiscal 2026 outlook and withdrawn the long-term financial framework it laid out at its December 2024 Investor Day. The stock is down 35.56% year to date. Income investors now have to ask whether the payout is growing faster than the business behind it.
Feed and Fencing Hold Up While Big-Ticket Sales Slip Tractor Supply sells to rural households and hobby farmers. Most of its demand comes from consumable, usable and edible (CUE) products such as animal feed and farm supplies, which customers keep rebuying in good times and bad ones. Riding mowers and seasonal goods sit on top as optional purchases. In the second quarter, CUE categories stayed positive and big-ticket sales fell by a mid-single-digit percentage. Comparable store sales dropped 1.5%.
“What has not changed is customer engagement. What has changed is customer spending behavior.”
CEO Hal Lawton blamed one bad month:
“Positive comparable store sales in April and June were more than offset by unusually adverse conditions in May, which drove second quarter results below our expectations.”
Annual Coverage Looks Solid, but 2026 Cash Flow Is Thin At $31.62, the $0.96 forward dividend yields about 3.0%. The payout uses about 50% of trailing EPS of $1.91. In fiscal 2025, free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capital spending) came to around $740.5 million, and dividends took about 66% of it.
The first half of 2026 was tighter. Free cash flow was around $217.4 million, while dividends cost $252.0 million. A large spring inventory build explains much of the gap. On top of the dividend, the company spent $118M and $135.3M on buybacks in the first two quarters. On the July call, Chief Financial Officer Kurt Barton said:
“We maintain a strong balance sheet and preserve significant financial flexibility.”
How Lowe’s and Home Depot Compare Company Dividend Yield Trailing P/E Forward P/E Tractor Supply 3.0% 17 14 Lowe’s (NYSE:LOW) 2.63% 16 16 Home Depot (NYSE:HD) 1.61% 20 20 Tractor Supply now has a higher yield than both home improvement chains and the lowest forward multiple of the three. That changes its old identity. Annual dividend spending rose from $20.4 million in 2010 to $487.7 million in 2025, the profile of a low-yield stock with fast payout growth. After a December 2024 stock split, the quarterly rate went from $0.23 to $0.24, a much smaller step. Buyers today get a higher yield with slower growth.
What Would Break the Thesis Analysts are cutting estimates. The fiscal 2026 EPS consensus fell to $1.8725 from $2.1153 90 days ago, with 12 down revisions and none up. Store openings planned for 2027 dropped to 85 to 90 from 100.
The conclusion: the dividend growth story still holds, but at a slower pace. A payout ratio near 51% of 2026 consensus EPS leaves room for small annual increases that keep the streak going. The thesis breaks if CUE categories turn negative, because that would mean the repeat-purchase base under the cash flow is collapsing. The next tests are the third-quarter report, where the consensus is $0.4077, and the new framework due with Q4 2026 results.
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Jackson Wealth Management ve 2. čtvrtletí snížila podíl v akciích Apple o 92,4 % a prodala 187 864 akcií. Po prodeji držela 15 419 akcií v hodnotě 4,462 mil. USD.
Jackson Wealth Management LLC lowered its stake in shares of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL – Free Report) by 92.4% during the 2nd quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 15,419 shares of the iPhone maker’s stock after selling 187,864 shares during the period. Apple makes up 2.6% of Jackson Wealth Management LLC’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 8th biggest holding. Jackson Wealth Management LLC’s holdings in Apple were worth $4,462,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in AAPL. Berkshire Hathaway Inc acquired a new stake in Apple in the second quarter valued at approximately $65,950,297,000. Bank of America Corp DE acquired a new position in shares of Apple during the second quarter worth approximately $36,986,090,000. Legal & General Group Plc bought a new stake in Apple during the 2nd quarter valued at $30,443,242,000. Nuveen LLC increased its stake in Apple by 3.8% during the 4th quarter. Nuveen LLC now owns 75,000,920 shares of the iPhone maker’s stock valued at $20,389,750,000 after purchasing an additional 2,725,121 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Amundi raised its holdings in Apple by 23.2% during the first quarter. Amundi now owns 73,082,616 shares of the iPhone maker’s stock worth $18,547,637,000 after buying an additional 13,780,080 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 67.73% of the company’s stock.
Apple News Summary Here are the key news stories impacting Apple this week:
Positive Sentiment: Apple is launching new safeguards designed to protect its devices from probing AI agents. The move may strengthen user trust and help preserve Apple’s security-focused ecosystem as agentic AI becomes more prominent. Apple Launches New Safeguards Against AI Agents Positive Sentiment: The fall product cycle remains a near-term tailwind. Morgan Stanley modestly raised its revenue forecast after Apple’s launches, while Counterpoint reportedly expects about 6 million sales of the $1,999 foldable iPhone Duo this year. New Apple Watch health features and potential smart-home products could also broaden the company’s ecosystem. Apple’s Fall Product Cycle Could Support Revenue Growth Neutral Sentiment: Morgan Stanley maintained an Overweight rating but lowered its price target to $355 from $360. Higher memory and component costs, along with possible iPhone pricing pressure, are offsetting much of the expected product-revenue benefit. Morgan Stanley Adjusts Price Target on Apple Negative Sentiment: A jury’s $5.7 billion patent verdict against Apple has raised concerns about potential ongoing royalties and pressure on hardware margins. Apple’s $5.7 Billion Patent Verdict Raises a Bigger Royalty Question Negative Sentiment: Investors remain worried that AI agents from rivals such as Meta could bypass the App Store and weaken Apple’s high-margin services business. Analysts also see limited upside after Apple’s strong run and its relatively rich valuation. Negative Sentiment: Senior Vice President Jennifer Newstead sold 2,399 shares valued at approximately $806,496, reducing her direct holdings by 5.4%. The transaction is small relative to her remaining stake but adds modest insider-selling pressure. Apple Insider Transaction Filing Analyst Ratings Changes A number of research analysts have weighed in on the stock. China Renaissance lowered shares of Apple from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and dropped their price objective for the company from $329.00 to $280.00 in a research note on Tuesday, August 4th. KGI Securities lowered shares of Apple from an “outperform” rating to a “hold” rating and set a $315.00 target price on the stock. in a report on Monday, June 22nd. Oppenheimer reaffirmed a “market perform” rating on shares of Apple in a research report on Thursday, September 10th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. reiterated a “buy” rating on shares of Apple in a research note on Monday, September 21st. Finally, Rosenblatt Securities restated a “neutral” rating and issued a $303.00 target price on shares of Apple in a report on Thursday, September 10th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-six have given a Buy rating, thirteen have given a Hold rating and two have assigned a Sell rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $340.02. Get Our Latest Research Report on Apple
Apple Stock Up 1.0% AAPL opened at $333.69 on Friday. Apple Inc. has a twelve month low of $243.42 and a twelve month high of $345.34. The company’s 50-day moving average price is $322.16 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $300.01. The stock has a market cap of $4.87 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 38.27, a PEG ratio of 2.63 and a beta of 1.07. The company has a quick ratio of 0.93, a current ratio of 1.00 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.66.
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL – Get Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, July 30th. The iPhone maker reported $2.02 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.89 by $0.13. Apple had a net margin of 27.62% and a return on equity of 135.46%. The company had revenue of $109.42 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $109.04 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $1.57 EPS. Apple’s revenue was up 16.4% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, equities analysts expect that Apple Inc. will post 8.74 earnings per share for the current year.
Apple Dividend Announcement The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, August 13th. Shareholders of record on Monday, August 10th were issued a dividend of $0.27 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Monday, August 10th. This represents a $1.08 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.3%. Apple’s dividend payout ratio is 12.39%.
Insiders Place Their Bets In other Apple news, SVP Jennifer Newstead sold 2,399 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, September 29th. The shares were sold at an average price of $336.18, for a total transaction of $806,495.82. Following the completion of the transaction, the senior vice president owned 41,992 shares in the company, valued at $14,116,870.56. This trade represents a 5.40% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link. Insiders have sold a total of 13,430 shares of company stock worth $4,342,255 in the last three months. 0.06% of the stock is owned by company insiders.
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Apple Inc is a technology company that designs, develops and markets consumer electronics, software and digital services. Its best-known products include the iPhone smartphone, Mac personal computers, iPad tablets, Apple Watch, AirPods and other accessories. The company also develops operating systems and software platforms, including iOS, macOS, iPadOS, watchOS and visionOS.
Apple’s services business includes the App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, Apple News+, Apple Fitness+ and iCloud.
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Tesla v Austinu za měsíc téměř zčtyřnásobila počet Cybercabů schválených k provozu v Texasu na 169. Další růst ale brzdí technické potíže i regulační dohled NHTSA.
In the month since Tesla's Cybercab rollout in Austin, the company has almost quadrupled the number of its driverless, bronze two-seaters authorized for commercial service in Texas. For Elon Musk to achieve his ambitions, growth has to pick up
The unusual driverless vehicles, with no steering wheel, pedals, rear or sideview mirrors or outside door handles, have received mixed reviews from paying passengers, who shared videos and posts online after the launch on Sept. 3. Criticisms have included lengthy wait times, pickups and drop-offs in the wrong place, and technical difficulties with the vehicles' butterfly doors or trunk closing improperly.
Improving its driverless technology and rapidly growing the Robotaxi service are key to Tesla's effort to reignite investor enthusiasm. Auto sales have been sluggish for an extended period, and the shares have been a loser on Wall Street this year, down 18%, the only megacap tech stock that's failed to generate positive returns for investors.
On Friday, Tesla reported better-than-expected vehicle deliveries for the third quarter, lifting the stock almost 5%, but the company still showed a 2% year-over-year drop in deliveries. Tesla's core automotive business has experienced consecutive annual revenue declines, as it faces pressure from Chinese EV makers like BYD and Xiaomi, which are selling more affordable, innovative models while they ramp up exports to key Tesla markets, especially across Europe and Asia.
Meanwhile, Alphabet's Waymo continues to open in new cities. It's now in 15 U.S. markets, with 15 more on the horizon, according to the company's website. It's also announced planned international launches in London, Tokyo and Munich.
In Texas, Waymo had 1,154 autonomous vehicles authorized for commercial use as of Friday, including 359 of its new Ojai models, which feature a low step and doors that slide open and shut. Waymo is conducting more than 500,000 paid rides every week and has completed 270 million fully autonomous miles of commercial driving domestically. It currently has over 4,000 driverless vehicles in commercial operations in the U.S.
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Tesla had 45 Cybercabs authorized for commercial use in Texas at the time of its Austin unveiling, a number that rose to 169 as of Friday, according to Texas Department of Motor Vehicles' public records.
Tesla's hometown of Austin is the only city where it currently has the Cybercab running as part of its driverless ride-hail service. The company's Robotaxi fleet in Texas also includes 420 Model Y vehicles equipped with Tesla automated driving systems, which are not yet available to individual car buyers.
Austin has emerged as a popular early market for robotaxis due to a combination of relatively lax state regulations and the capital city's vibrant tech community. Amazon's Zoox is also testing in Austin.
Hurdles to expansionGrowing beyond Austin is the next challenge for Tesla's Cybercab.
In addition to technical issues, the company faces some potential regulatory hurdles to expansion. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) initiated a so-called audit query after the Cybercab launch to make sure the vehicles comply with federal safety standards.
NHTSA originally ordered Tesla to respond by Sept. 30 to a long list of safety questions, but the company obtained an extension, an agency spokesperson told CNBC via email.
Ethan McKanna, an Austin resident and former Tesla intern, told CNBC that he's taken rides in every type of autonomous vehicle available to public riders in the city.
The 20-year-old McKanna, now a sophomore studying computer science at Texas A&M University, has also created a site called RobotaxiTracker.com, which uses machine learning to analyze data streaming in from traffic cameras and other public records, to show how autonomous services are working in U.S. cities.
McKanna said he's caught about 30 Cybercab rides and has been taking Waymo rides since they debuted in Austin in 2024. With the Cybercab, McKanna said he likes having his "own space with access to a massive screen, media controls and apps," and he found the drive quality "very smooth."
The "pick up, drop-off experience," he said, was not yet refined and the butterfly doors that extend out are "less convenient" than more traditional doors, or doors that slide open. It also takes patience, he said.
"There was so much demand that wait times were often like 45 minutes plus," he said, referring to the period when the Cybercab first rolled out. That's come down with more "equalized demand," in recent weeks, he said.
"Waymo's been doing commercial operations for longer, so they're just more mature with 24/7 service, better support, things like that," McKanna said, adding that in Waymo's early days in Austin, there were some "harsh braking" issues.
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No significant safety incidents or collisions have been reported in Austin involving a Cybercab since the commercial debut. But first responders have expressed concerns about dealing with the Cybercab's lack of manual driving controls and its unique doors.
Austin Fire Captain Matt McElearney told CNBC in an interview that while Tesla provided detailed emergency guidelines and gave first responders comprehensive instruction on how to deal with Cybercab and Model Y Robotaxi vehicles in a variety of events, that's not going far enough.
McElearney said he'd like to see national or state-level regulation of autonomous vehicles requiring robotaxis with no steering wheel or pedals to provide some other way for "public safety representatives to take control — move, steer, or shut down an AV — in both emergent or non-emergent events."
And since their performance can change with software bugs or updates, AVs should have to "pass testing through the entire lifespan of the product," through a kind of "dynamic certification" process, McElearney added.
Tesla didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
The public also has a broad array of safety concerns.
According to surveys conducted by Slingshot Strategies in a September 2026 Electric Vehicle Intelligence Report, 50% of U.S. respondents said they would not feel comfortable with the idea of riding in a robotaxi without a steering wheel or pedals. Upon hearing about the NHTSA investigation into Tesla's Cybercab, 70% wanted the company to pause rides, the surveys showed.
Musk needs that sentiment to change if he's to successfully move Tesla into the driverless era. His next step in trying to become a major player in the market will be expansion across Texas in San Antonio, Dallas and other cities, as well as to Nevada and Florida, where AV companies can take advantage of warm weather and favorable state regulations.
In January, Musk said at the World Economic Forum in Davos that the company's robotaxis would be "very, very widespread" in the U.S. by the end of 2026. That hasn't happened yet. And in California, where Waymos are a common sight in several cities, Tesla still hasn't obtained permits to run its vehicles on public roads without humans at the wheel.
After Tesla's deliveries report on Friday, analysts at Cantor emphasized the magnitude of the opportunity.
"Management previously said that once production ramps, it expects Cybercab to ultimately be the largest volume vehicle in its lineup," they wrote.
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denkapparat Operations GmbH purchased a new position in shares of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN – Free Report) during the 2nd quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor purchased 2,192 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock, valued at approximately $522,000.
Other institutional investors also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. TD Waterhouse Canada Inc. grew its holdings in shares of Amazon.com by 2.2% during the second quarter. TD Waterhouse Canada Inc. now owns 2,257,562 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $545,870,000 after purchasing an additional 49,075 shares during the last quarter. Premier Path Wealth Partners LLC lifted its stake in Amazon.com by 3.1% in the second quarter. Premier Path Wealth Partners LLC now owns 73,878 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock valued at $17,608,000 after buying an additional 2,245 shares during the last quarter. Kickstand Ventures LLC. acquired a new stake in shares of Amazon.com in the second quarter valued at approximately $200,000. Werlinich Asset Management LLC boosted its holdings in shares of Amazon.com by 0.7% in the second quarter. Werlinich Asset Management LLC now owns 6,945 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock valued at $1,655,000 after acquiring an additional 50 shares during the period. Finally, Prosperitas Financial LLC grew its position in shares of Amazon.com by 4.6% during the second quarter. Prosperitas Financial LLC now owns 44,696 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $10,653,000 after acquiring an additional 1,955 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 72.20% of the company’s stock.
Analysts Set New Price Targets A number of equities analysts have recently commented on the stock. DA Davidson reaffirmed a “neutral” rating and issued a $250.00 target price on shares of Amazon.com in a report on Friday, July 31st. Monness Crespi & Hardt increased their price objective on Amazon.com from $315.00 to $330.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday, July 31st. TD Cowen reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a $350.00 target price (up from $340.00) on shares of Amazon.com in a research note on Friday, July 31st. Truist Financial boosted their target price on Amazon.com from $320.00 to $350.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, July 31st. Finally, Morgan Stanley restated an “overweight” rating and set a $335.00 price target (up from $330.00) on shares of Amazon.com in a research note on Friday, July 31st. Fifty-six research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and three have issued a Hold rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Amazon.com presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $321.63.
Check Out Our Latest Stock Analysis on Amazon.com Amazon.com Stock Performance Amazon.com stock opened at $251.52 on Friday. Amazon.com, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $196.00 and a fifty-two week high of $287.20. The company has a market capitalization of $2.71 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 20.23, a PEG ratio of 1.92 and a beta of 1.45. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $257.06 and a two-hundred day moving average of $248.25. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.23, a quick ratio of 0.87 and a current ratio of 1.03.
Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN – Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, July 30th. The e-commerce giant reported $5.75 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.82 by $3.93. The business had revenue of $200.61 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $197.03 billion. Amazon.com had a return on equity of 18.00% and a net margin of 17.44%.The business’s revenue was up 19.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $1.68 earnings per share. On average, analysts anticipate that Amazon.com, Inc. will post 8.01 EPS for the current fiscal year.
Insider Transactions at Amazon.com In other Amazon.com news, SVP David Zapolsky sold 9,258 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, August 24th. The shares were sold at an average price of $259.77, for a total value of $2,404,950.66. Following the transaction, the senior vice president directly owned 41,190 shares in the company, valued at approximately $10,699,926.30. This represents a 18.35% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, CEO Andrew Jassy sold 20,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, August 21st. The stock was sold at an average price of $259.01, for a total transaction of $5,180,200.00. Following the sale, the chief executive officer directly owned 2,235,766 shares in the company, valued at $579,085,751.66. This represents a 0.89% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Insiders have sold a total of 70,589 shares of company stock worth $18,329,015 in the last ninety days. Company insiders own 8.90% of the company’s stock.
Key Amazon.com News Here are the key news stories impacting Amazon.com this week:
Positive Sentiment: AWS data-center push received support: Amazon Web Services pledged more than $1 billion over five years for communities hosting its U.S. data centers, including job training, education and infrastructure initiatives. The investment is intended to ease resistance to new facilities and help Amazon secure capacity for AI workloads. Amazon to invest $1 billion over five years in US data center communities Positive Sentiment: AI and AWS growth remain the main bullish catalyst: Reports highlighted AWS’s rapid expansion, a more than $1 billion Synopsys agreement supporting custom-chip development, and Anthropic’s expected long-term AWS commitments of roughly $110 billion. Amazon also launched an AI agent that audits customers’ cloud environments, potentially increasing AWS usage while improving customer cost, security and performance management. Amazon Is Both Landlord And Shareholder In Anthropic’s Giant Cloud Bet Positive Sentiment: Analyst confidence provided additional support: Goldman Sachs added Amazon to its conviction list, while New Street raised its price target to $385 and maintained a Buy rating. Analysts cited AWS growth, generative AI exposure and potential retail-margin improvement as reasons for longer-term upside. New Street Adjusts Price Target on Amazon.com to $385 Neutral Sentiment: Amazon is reportedly exploring an $8 billion chip sale-and-leaseback: Moving Nvidia AI chips to an investment vehicle could make the balance sheet more asset-light and help fund capital spending, but it also underscores the scale of Amazon’s AI infrastructure costs and financing requirements. Amazon seeks to offload $8 billion of Nvidia chips Negative Sentiment: Investors face profitability and regulatory risks: Analysts questioned how much AWS earnings are distorted by unrealized Anthropic investment gains, while surging AI capital expenditures could pressure free cash flow. Potential tougher EU cloud rules, data-center opposition, warehouse labor actions and Prime-related settlement payments add further uncertainty. What Are Amazon Investors Paying for AWS Without Investment Gains? Amazon.com Profile (Free Report)
Amazon.com, Inc is a global technology and commerce company that operates online marketplaces, physical stores, and a broad portfolio of digital and cloud-based services. The company offers consumer products across categories such as electronics, household goods, apparel, groceries, and entertainment, while also providing third-party sellers with tools for listing, selling, and fulfilling orders.
Amazon’s major businesses include Amazon Web Services (AWS), which provides cloud computing, storage, database, analytics, and artificial intelligence services; Prime, a membership program that includes shipping, streaming, and other benefits; and digital entertainment services such as Prime Video, Amazon Music, Kindle, and Audible.
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Gryphon Financial Partners zvýšila ve 2. čtvrtletí podíl v Microsoftu o 6,6 % na 63 743 akcií v hodnotě 23,778 milionu USD. Microsoft zároveň oznámil čtvrtletní dividendu ve výši 0,98 USD na akcii, oproti dřívějším 0,91 USD.
Gryphon Financial Partners LLC grew its position in Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT – Free Report) by 6.6% during the 2nd quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 63,743 shares of the software giant’s stock after acquiring an additional 3,936 shares during the period. Microsoft comprises 2.1% of Gryphon Financial Partners LLC’s portfolio, making the stock its 7th largest holding. Gryphon Financial Partners LLC’s holdings in Microsoft were worth $23,778,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also made changes to their positions in MSFT. Frankly Finances LLC purchased a new position in shares of Microsoft during the 2nd quarter worth approximately $35,000. Fiduciary Advisors Inc. grew its holdings in Microsoft by 37.4% during the second quarter. Fiduciary Advisors Inc. now owns 125 shares of the software giant’s stock worth $47,000 after acquiring an additional 34 shares during the period. MidAtlantic Capital Management Inc. acquired a new position in Microsoft during the fourth quarter worth $59,000. Glynn Capital Management LLC raised its position in Microsoft by 34.2% in the second quarter. Glynn Capital Management LLC now owns 255 shares of the software giant’s stock worth $95,000 after acquiring an additional 65 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Lifetime Wealth Management P.C. acquired a new stake in Microsoft in the fourth quarter valued at $101,000. 71.13% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Microsoft Stock Up 0.9% Shares of MSFT opened at $517.53 on Friday. Microsoft Corporation has a fifty-two week low of $349.20 and a fifty-two week high of $553.72. The company’s fifty day moving average is $490.08 and its two-hundred day moving average is $429.97. The firm has a market cap of $3.84 trillion, a PE ratio of 28.82, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.65 and a beta of 1.10. The company has a quick ratio of 1.22, a current ratio of 1.23 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.07.
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT – Get Free Report) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, July 29th. The software giant reported $4.74 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $4.24 by $0.50. Microsoft had a return on equity of 31.98% and a net margin of 40.31%.The firm had revenue of $90.01 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $87.62 billion. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $3.65 earnings per share. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 17.7% compared to the same quarter last year. Analysts forecast that Microsoft Corporation will post 19.62 earnings per share for the current year. Microsoft Increases Dividend The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, December 10th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, November 19th will be paid a $0.98 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, November 19th. This represents a $3.92 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.8%. This is an increase from Microsoft’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.91. Microsoft’s dividend payout ratio is presently 20.27%.
Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades Several equities research analysts have commented on the stock. Citigroup restated a “market outperform” rating on shares of Microsoft in a research report on Monday, September 21st. Oppenheimer raised their price objective on shares of Microsoft from $515.00 to $570.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Tuesday, September 22nd. Citizens Jmp reaffirmed a “market outperform” rating and issued a $550.00 target price on shares of Microsoft in a report on Tuesday, September 15th. UBS Group initiated coverage on shares of Microsoft in a research report on Wednesday, September 23rd. They set a “buy” rating for the company. Finally, Barclays decreased their price target on Microsoft from $545.00 to $512.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, July 30th. Forty-three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, four have issued a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Microsoft has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $571.18.
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Microsoft News Summary Here are the key news stories impacting Microsoft this week:
Positive Sentiment: Azure and AI demand remain the primary catalyst. Investor data and analyst commentary point to accelerating Azure demand, while Microsoft’s recent earnings showed its fastest cloud growth in four years. The improving demand is helping ease concerns that the company’s substantial AI infrastructure spending will not generate adequate returns. Ca$htag: MSFT Azure Cloud Drives Soaring Demand Positive Sentiment: Wells Fargo added Microsoft to its Q4 Tactical Ideas list and raised its price target to $725, citing Azure’s growth potential and the prospect of improved AI monetization through Copilot. The action adds to a series of bullish analyst revisions; one report noted that 52 analysts covering Microsoft currently have no sell ratings. With Azure as a Catalyst, Microsoft Is Positioned for Sustained Growth Positive Sentiment: Microsoft’s OpenAI relationship provides potential additional value. Investors are increasingly focused on Microsoft’s stake and commercial partnership with OpenAI, particularly ahead of a possible OpenAI initial public offering that could provide a market reference for the investment. OpenAI’s Future IPO Keeps Me Buying Microsoft Positive Sentiment: Microsoft introduced new real-time AI speech models for customer-service agents, multilingual assistants and voice interfaces. The products broaden Microsoft’s enterprise AI offering and could support additional cloud consumption and software revenue. Microsoft Targets Contact Center Market With Real-Time AI Voice Models Neutral Sentiment: Investors are awaiting Microsoft’s October 7 Surface and Windows event. New hardware or Windows updates could support the ecosystem, although the event has not yet produced a material earnings catalyst. Microsoft Stock Notches Up Ahead of the Surface Show Negative Sentiment: Risks include heavy AI capital spending, valuation concerns and broader market concentration. Critics argue that rising data-center capacity could pressure compute pricing and returns, while strategists warn that a market correction could disproportionately affect megacap technology stocks. Microsoft’s dividend remains affordable, but AI infrastructure spending and lease commitments could limit future dividend growth. Morgan Stanley Strategist Sees Market Drawdown Potential Insider Transactions at Microsoft In other news, CEO Satya Nadella sold 86,525 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, September 1st. The stock was sold at an average price of $501.46, for a total transaction of $43,388,826.50. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer owned 486,763 shares in the company, valued at approximately $244,092,173.98. The trade was a 15.09% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, EVP Takeshi Numoto sold 4,810 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, August 4th. The stock was sold at an average price of $496.48, for a total transaction of $2,388,068.80. Following the sale, the executive vice president directly owned 42,677 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $21,188,276.96. This trade represents a 10.13% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Over the last quarter, insiders sold 143,009 shares of company stock valued at $71,420,699. 0.03% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.
Microsoft Company Profile (Free Report)
Microsoft Corporation is a global technology company that develops software, cloud services, devices, gaming products and business solutions. Founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, the company is best known for the Windows operating system and Microsoft Office productivity software. Microsoft is headquartered in Redmond, Washington, and serves consumers, businesses, governments and educational institutions worldwide.
Microsoft’s productivity and business offerings include Microsoft 365 applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, along with collaboration tools including Teams.
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National Mutual Insurance Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives ve 2. čtvrtletí zvýšila podíl v Microsoftu o 23,6 % na 219 900 akcií v hodnotě 82 027 000 USD.
National Mutual Insurance Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives lifted its stake in shares of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT – Free Report) by 23.6% in the second quarter, according to its most recent filing with the SEC. The fund owned 219,900 shares of the software giant’s stock after acquiring an additional 42,000 shares during the period. Microsoft makes up 0.5% of National Mutual Insurance Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives’ investment portfolio, making the stock its 12th biggest position. National Mutual Insurance Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives’ holdings in Microsoft were worth $82,027,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.
Other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently modified their holdings of the company. Auto Owners Insurance Co boosted its position in Microsoft by 56,160.8% during the fourth quarter. Auto Owners Insurance Co now owns 60,116,384 shares of the software giant’s stock valued at $29,073,486,000 after buying an additional 60,009,531 shares during the period. Amundi lifted its position in Microsoft by 30.8% in the first quarter. Amundi now owns 41,675,076 shares of the software giant’s stock valued at $15,426,862,000 after purchasing an additional 9,814,598 shares during the last quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP boosted its stake in shares of Microsoft by 10.5% during the first quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 29,323,744 shares of the software giant’s stock valued at $10,852,884,000 after purchasing an additional 2,784,809 shares during the period. Fisher Asset Management LLC grew its holdings in shares of Microsoft by 1.8% in the fourth quarter. Fisher Asset Management LLC now owns 25,300,410 shares of the software giant’s stock worth $12,235,785,000 after purchasing an additional 458,014 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Arrowstreet Capital Limited Partnership increased its stake in shares of Microsoft by 64.3% in the first quarter. Arrowstreet Capital Limited Partnership now owns 24,264,779 shares of the software giant’s stock worth $8,982,083,000 after buying an additional 9,493,778 shares during the period. 71.13% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
Analysts Set New Price Targets A number of analysts have recently weighed in on MSFT shares. TD Cowen reiterated a “buy” rating and set a $540.00 target price on shares of Microsoft in a report on Thursday, July 30th. Morgan Stanley reaffirmed an “overweight” rating on shares of Microsoft in a research report on Thursday, July 30th. BMO Capital Markets increased their price objective on Microsoft from $500.00 to $515.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Thursday, July 30th. Truist Financial reissued a “buy” rating and set a $575.00 target price on shares of Microsoft in a research note on Wednesday, July 22nd. Finally, CLSA restated an “outperform” rating on shares of Microsoft in a report on Thursday, July 30th. Forty-three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, four have assigned a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Microsoft has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $571.18.
Read Our Latest Report on MSFT Microsoft Stock Up 0.9% Microsoft stock opened at $517.53 on Friday. Microsoft Corporation has a 12 month low of $349.20 and a 12 month high of $553.72. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $490.08 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $429.97. The company has a current ratio of 1.23, a quick ratio of 1.22 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.07. The firm has a market cap of $3.84 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 28.82, a PEG ratio of 1.65 and a beta of 1.10.
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT – Get Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, July 29th. The software giant reported $4.74 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $4.24 by $0.50. Microsoft had a return on equity of 31.98% and a net margin of 40.31%.The company had revenue of $90.01 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $87.62 billion. During the same period last year, the firm posted $3.65 earnings per share. Microsoft’s revenue was up 17.7% compared to the same quarter last year. Equities analysts predict that Microsoft Corporation will post 19.62 EPS for the current fiscal year.
Microsoft Increases Dividend The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, December 10th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, November 19th will be issued a dividend of $0.98 per share. This represents a $3.92 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.8%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, November 19th. This is a boost from Microsoft’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.91. Microsoft’s payout ratio is 20.27%.
Key Microsoft News Here are the key news stories impacting Microsoft this week:
Positive Sentiment: Azure and AI demand remain the primary catalyst. Investor data and analyst commentary point to accelerating Azure demand, while Microsoft’s recent earnings showed its fastest cloud growth in four years. The improving demand is helping ease concerns that the company’s substantial AI infrastructure spending will not generate adequate returns. Ca$htag: MSFT Azure Cloud Drives Soaring Demand Positive Sentiment: Wells Fargo added Microsoft to its Q4 Tactical Ideas list and raised its price target to $725, citing Azure’s growth potential and the prospect of improved AI monetization through Copilot. The action adds to a series of bullish analyst revisions; one report noted that 52 analysts covering Microsoft currently have no sell ratings. With Azure as a Catalyst, Microsoft Is Positioned for Sustained Growth Positive Sentiment: Microsoft’s OpenAI relationship provides potential additional value. Investors are increasingly focused on Microsoft’s stake and commercial partnership with OpenAI, particularly ahead of a possible OpenAI initial public offering that could provide a market reference for the investment. OpenAI’s Future IPO Keeps Me Buying Microsoft Positive Sentiment: Microsoft introduced new real-time AI speech models for customer-service agents, multilingual assistants and voice interfaces. The products broaden Microsoft’s enterprise AI offering and could support additional cloud consumption and software revenue. Microsoft Targets Contact Center Market With Real-Time AI Voice Models Neutral Sentiment: Investors are awaiting Microsoft’s October 7 Surface and Windows event. New hardware or Windows updates could support the ecosystem, although the event has not yet produced a material earnings catalyst. Microsoft Stock Notches Up Ahead of the Surface Show Negative Sentiment: Risks include heavy AI capital spending, valuation concerns and broader market concentration. Critics argue that rising data-center capacity could pressure compute pricing and returns, while strategists warn that a market correction could disproportionately affect megacap technology stocks. Microsoft’s dividend remains affordable, but AI infrastructure spending and lease commitments could limit future dividend growth. Morgan Stanley Strategist Sees Market Drawdown Potential Insider Activity at Microsoft In other Microsoft news, CEO Judson Althoff sold 10,000 shares of Microsoft stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, August 5th. The shares were sold at an average price of $487.89, for a total value of $4,878,900.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer owned 100,447 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $49,007,086.83. The trade was a 9.05% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, EVP Amy Hood sold 41,674 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Monday, September 14th. The stock was sold at an average price of $498.27, for a total value of $20,764,903.98. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive vice president owned 533,624 shares in the company, valued at approximately $265,888,830.48. This trade represents a 7.24% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Insiders sold 143,009 shares of company stock valued at $71,420,699 over the last ninety days. Company insiders own 0.03% of the company’s stock.
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Microsoft Corporation is a global technology company that develops software, cloud services, devices, gaming products and business solutions. Founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, the company is best known for the Windows operating system and Microsoft Office productivity software. Microsoft is headquartered in Redmond, Washington, and serves consumers, businesses, governments and educational institutions worldwide.
Microsoft’s productivity and business offerings include Microsoft 365 applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, along with collaboration tools including Teams.
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Janney Montgomery Scott LLC ve 2. čtvrtletí zvýšila podíl v Microsoftu o 2,3 % a nakoupila dalších 51 099 akcií. Drží 2 289 585 akcií v hodnotě 854,061,000 USD.
Janney Montgomery Scott LLC grew its position in Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT – Free Report) by 2.3% in the second quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 2,289,585 shares of the software giant’s stock after buying an additional 51,099 shares during the quarter. Microsoft accounts for 1.7% of Janney Montgomery Scott LLC’s holdings, making the stock its 5th largest holding. Janney Montgomery Scott LLC’s holdings in Microsoft were worth $854,061,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
Several other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently modified their holdings of MSFT. Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management increased its stake in shares of Microsoft by 4.0% during the second quarter. Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management now owns 229,490 shares of the software giant’s stock worth $85,604,000 after buying an additional 8,773 shares during the period. Markel Group Inc. raised its holdings in shares of Microsoft by 0.4% in the 1st quarter. Markel Group Inc. now owns 537,630 shares of the software giant’s stock valued at $199,014,000 after purchasing an additional 1,950 shares in the last quarter. Bessemer Group Inc. lifted its position in shares of Microsoft by 8.4% during the 1st quarter. Bessemer Group Inc. now owns 6,921,677 shares of the software giant’s stock worth $2,562,197,000 after purchasing an additional 537,634 shares during the last quarter. Taylor Securities Services Inc. purchased a new stake in shares of Microsoft during the 4th quarter worth $2,616,000. Finally, Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services Ltd. grew its stake in shares of Microsoft by 138.8% during the first quarter. Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services Ltd. now owns 1,356,359 shares of the software giant’s stock worth $502,077,000 after purchasing an additional 788,297 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 71.13% of the company’s stock.
Microsoft Trading Up 0.9% Shares of MSFT stock opened at $517.53 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.07, a current ratio of 1.23 and a quick ratio of 1.22. The firm has a market cap of $3.84 trillion, a P/E ratio of 28.82, a PEG ratio of 1.65 and a beta of 1.10. Microsoft Corporation has a 1-year low of $349.20 and a 1-year high of $553.72. The firm’s 50-day simple moving average is $490.08 and its 200-day simple moving average is $429.97.
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT – Get Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, July 29th. The software giant reported $4.74 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $4.24 by $0.50. Microsoft had a net margin of 40.31% and a return on equity of 31.98%. The firm had revenue of $90.01 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $87.62 billion. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $3.65 earnings per share. Microsoft’s revenue for the quarter was up 17.7% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, equities analysts forecast that Microsoft Corporation will post 19.62 EPS for the current year. Microsoft Increases Dividend The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, December 10th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, November 19th will be given a $0.98 dividend. This represents a $3.92 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.8%. This is a positive change from Microsoft’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.91. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, November 19th. Microsoft’s dividend payout ratio is 20.27%.
Insider Activity In other news, EVP Takeshi Numoto sold 4,810 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, August 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $496.48, for a total transaction of $2,388,068.80. Following the transaction, the executive vice president directly owned 42,677 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $21,188,276.96. The trade was a 10.13% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, CEO Judson Althoff sold 10,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, August 5th. The shares were sold at an average price of $487.89, for a total transaction of $4,878,900.00. Following the sale, the chief executive officer directly owned 100,447 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $49,007,086.83. The trade was a 9.05% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Over the last ninety days, insiders have sold 143,009 shares of company stock worth $71,420,699. Company insiders own 0.03% of the company’s stock.
Key Headlines Impacting Microsoft Here are the key news stories impacting Microsoft this week:
Positive Sentiment: Azure and AI demand remain the primary catalyst. Investor data and analyst commentary point to accelerating Azure demand, while Microsoft’s recent earnings showed its fastest cloud growth in four years. The improving demand is helping ease concerns that the company’s substantial AI infrastructure spending will not generate adequate returns. Ca$htag: MSFT Azure Cloud Drives Soaring Demand Positive Sentiment: Wells Fargo added Microsoft to its Q4 Tactical Ideas list and raised its price target to $725, citing Azure’s growth potential and the prospect of improved AI monetization through Copilot. The action adds to a series of bullish analyst revisions; one report noted that 52 analysts covering Microsoft currently have no sell ratings. With Azure as a Catalyst, Microsoft Is Positioned for Sustained Growth Positive Sentiment: Microsoft’s OpenAI relationship provides potential additional value. Investors are increasingly focused on Microsoft’s stake and commercial partnership with OpenAI, particularly ahead of a possible OpenAI initial public offering that could provide a market reference for the investment. OpenAI’s Future IPO Keeps Me Buying Microsoft Positive Sentiment: Microsoft introduced new real-time AI speech models for customer-service agents, multilingual assistants and voice interfaces. The products broaden Microsoft’s enterprise AI offering and could support additional cloud consumption and software revenue. Microsoft Targets Contact Center Market With Real-Time AI Voice Models Neutral Sentiment: Investors are awaiting Microsoft’s October 7 Surface and Windows event. New hardware or Windows updates could support the ecosystem, although the event has not yet produced a material earnings catalyst. Microsoft Stock Notches Up Ahead of the Surface Show Negative Sentiment: Risks include heavy AI capital spending, valuation concerns and broader market concentration. Critics argue that rising data-center capacity could pressure compute pricing and returns, while strategists warn that a market correction could disproportionately affect megacap technology stocks. Microsoft’s dividend remains affordable, but AI infrastructure spending and lease commitments could limit future dividend growth. Morgan Stanley Strategist Sees Market Drawdown Potential Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades A number of analysts have weighed in on the company. Wolfe Research cut Microsoft from an “outperform” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Wednesday, September 23rd. Weiss Ratings raised Microsoft from a “hold (c)” rating to a “hold (c+)” rating in a research report on Thursday, August 27th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. restated a “buy” rating on shares of Microsoft in a research note on Monday, September 28th. Wells Fargo & Company upped their price target on Microsoft from $700.00 to $725.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Thursday. Finally, Royal Bank Of Canada reiterated an “outperform” rating on shares of Microsoft in a research note on Thursday, September 10th. Forty-three research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, four have assigned a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Microsoft presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $571.18.
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Microsoft Corporation is a global technology company that develops software, cloud services, devices, gaming products and business solutions. Founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, the company is best known for the Windows operating system and Microsoft Office productivity software. Microsoft is headquartered in Redmond, Washington, and serves consumers, businesses, governments and educational institutions worldwide.
Microsoft’s productivity and business offerings include Microsoft 365 applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, along with collaboration tools including Teams.
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Nike v 1. čtvrtletí utržila 11,2 miliardy USD, meziročně o 4 % méně, a akcie klesly o 5,8 % na 33,10 USD. Firma záměrně omezuje prodeje a čeká tlak na výnosy i ziskovost.
Nike is deliberately shrinking itself, slashing sales of its most iconic products and retreating from entire markets. Whether that painful gamble rebuilds the brand or just accelerates the decline is the question every shareholder now faces.
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Per CFO Dave Denton, Nike (NYSE:NKE | NKE Price Prediction) reported first-quarter revenue of $11.2 billion, down 4%, with gross margin of 42.8%, up 60 basis points, and EPS of $0.48. Shares fell 5.8% to $33.10, down 47.7% year to date and 75.5% over five years. The decline reflects Nike’s plan to get smaller. Denton, new to the role, also delivered the full-year outlook.
Three Cuts Nike Chose to Make Dunk The Dunk is a low-top basketball shoe that became a lifestyle sneaker. CEO Elliott Hill said Nike reduced Dunk revenue by nearly 50% on purpose, creating a roughly $200 million drag in Sportswear. Pulling volume restores full prices because when popular shoes sit on every shelf, retailers discount them.
Jordan Retro Hill said, “We’re going to get back to leading the scarcity model that we created. Simply put, we’ve been oversupplying our iconic retro product, asking it to do too much.”
He also said Jordan made up 13% of Nike’s global business, with revenue down by the mid-teens. Rare shoes command premium prices. “When consumers see the Jumpman, it should feel special. It should feel earned,” said Hill.
Greater China Greater China revenue fell 26%, according to Nike. Hill called the digital marketplace “too broad. It wasn’t differentiated, and it had become promotional.” Nike is cutting back to official stores on Tmall, JD, and Douyin and its own app, expecting continued pressure on revenue and profitability in the near term.
Why the Growing Business Can’t Cover the Gap Yet Hill said Nike’s performance business grew by high single digits on a $16 billion base, with gains across running, football, training, basketball, tennis, and golf. Yet he acknowledged the limit: “Our Nike performance business is not yet large enough to offset the pressure we’re seeing in Nike Sportswear, Jordan brand, and Greater China.”
Sportswear made up just under half of revenue and fell by low double digits, Hill said. Running demand is strong: On Holding (NYSE:ONON) grew quarterly revenue 13.5% year over year. Softness is spreading across the category. A CNBC Fast Money panelist noted “Lululemon is going through the same thing” as Lululemon (NASDAQ:LULU) works through its own slowdown.
What Shareholders Are Being Asked to Accept “While these decisions can dampen near-term top line results, our focus is on improving the quality of revenue and creating a more sustainable foundation for long-term growth,” said Hill.
Denton guided fiscal 2027 revenue to decline in the high single-digit range, with operating profit falling by a greater percentage than revenue. Adjusted EPS is set at $1.15 to $1.35 versus GAAP EPS of $2.10 in fiscal 2026. Pain may extend into fiscal 2028. Most of the Pace program’s $2.5 billion in savings arrives in fiscal years 29 and 30.
Verdict: A Credible Plan That Still Needs a Floor The strategy is credible because Nike’s results back it up. Where management restored discipline, products responded: Air Force One is a “stable, full-price business,” and the Shanghai House of Innovation has posted 10 consecutive months of growth. The risk is that cutting revenue has no natural stopping point, and the timeline already extends into fiscal 2028.
The test is Nike’s November investor day. A five-year framework with a specific, dated return to growth for Sportswear, Jordan, and China would strengthen the recovery case. Longer timelines would suggest a strategy of demolition without a clear rebuilding endpoint.
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Mar Vista Investment Partners ve 2. čtvrtletí snížila svůj podíl v NVIDIA o 2,7 % a prodala 9 770 akcií. Po transakci držela 350 322 akcií v hodnotě 70,096 milionu USD.
Mar Vista Investment Partners LLC lessened its position in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA – Free Report) by 2.7% in the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 350,322 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after selling 9,770 shares during the period. NVIDIA comprises 7.0% of Mar Vista Investment Partners LLC’s holdings, making the stock its largest position. Mar Vista Investment Partners LLC’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $70,096,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Other institutional investors also recently modified their holdings of the company. Bank of America Corp DE lifted its position in shares of NVIDIA by 2.1% in the first quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 191,200,989 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $33,345,453,000 after purchasing an additional 4,019,505 shares in the last quarter. Invesco Ltd. grew its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 0.3% in the 4th quarter. Invesco Ltd. now owns 143,239,504 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $26,714,167,000 after acquiring an additional 446,178 shares in the last quarter. Amundi increased its position in shares of NVIDIA by 10.4% in the first quarter. Amundi now owns 133,768,018 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $23,329,141,000 after acquiring an additional 12,575,177 shares during the last quarter. J. Stern & Co. LLP increased its position in shares of NVIDIA by 13,709.1% in the fourth quarter. J. Stern & Co. LLP now owns 125,760,307 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $23,454,297,000 after acquiring an additional 124,849,603 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Dimensional Fund Advisors LP raised its holdings in NVIDIA by 0.6% during the first quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 94,521,253 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $16,479,126,000 after acquiring an additional 555,221 shares in the last quarter. 65.27% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.
Key NVIDIA News Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:
Positive Sentiment: Morgan Stanley named NVIDIA its top semiconductor pick, maintaining an Overweight rating and setting a $300 price target. The firm believes NVIDIA’s software ecosystem, scale and positioning across AI infrastructure trends give it a durable competitive moat. Morgan Stanley names NVIDIA a top pick Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA’s recently announced $150 billion buyback authorization lifts total remaining repurchase capacity to approximately $235 billion. Investors view the plan as a sign of management confidence and a potential source of per-share earnings support. NVIDIA buyback analysis Positive Sentiment: Analysts continue to raise expectations for hyperscaler spending, with Barclays estimating NVIDIA could generate $401 billion in hyperscaler revenue in 2027. CoreWeave’s launch of the Vera Rubin platform and additional enterprise customers also supports demand for NVIDIA’s next-generation systems. Barclays hyperscaler revenue estimate Neutral Sentiment: The broader semiconductor and technology complex is attracting buying interest as AI investment remains a major market leadership theme. However, NVIDIA’s valuation and substantial market concentration leave the stock sensitive to interest rates, economic data and shifts in institutional positioning. Negative Sentiment: Investors are monitoring reports that Amazon may move roughly $8 billion of NVIDIA chips off its balance sheet through leasing or financing structures. While this could improve customer flexibility, it adds scrutiny around AI infrastructure financing and so-called circular transactions. Amazon NVIDIA chip balance-sheet report Negative Sentiment: Export-control concerns remain a headline risk after prosecutors alleged a California man helped smuggle approximately $300 million of NVIDIA chips to China. Separately, Michael Burry warned that GPU depreciation could undermine the economics of the AI infrastructure boom, while Alphabet’s growing use of internally designed chips represents a longer-term competitive threat. NVIDIA chip smuggling prosecution Analysts Set New Price Targets NVDA has been the subject of a number of analyst reports. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft restated a “buy” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Monday, August 31st. TD Cowen reissued a “buy” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Tuesday, August 18th. Cantor Fitzgerald restated an “overweight” rating and set a $350.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday. DA Davidson reaffirmed a “buy” rating and set a $300.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday, August 27th. Finally, BMO Capital Markets set a $340.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Thursday, August 20th. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty have issued a Buy rating and one has assigned a Hold rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $320.71. Get Our Latest Stock Report on NVIDIA
Insider Activity In other NVIDIA news, CFO Colette Kress sold 34,918 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, September 17th. The stock was sold at an average price of $219.05, for a total value of $7,648,787.90. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief financial officer owned 765,103 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $167,595,812.15. This represents a 4.36% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 622,239 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Friday, September 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $231.62, for a total value of $144,122,997.18. Following the completion of the transaction, the director owned 2,336,531 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $541,187,310.22. This represents a 21.03% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. In the last ninety days, insiders sold 1,766,118 shares of company stock worth $399,450,353. Insiders own 3.94% of the company’s stock.
NVIDIA Stock Up 1.3% Shares of NASDAQ NVDA opened at $233.95 on Friday. The company has a market cap of $5.64 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 29.58, a PEG ratio of 1.78 and a beta of 2.22. The company has a current ratio of 4.59, a quick ratio of 3.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14. NVIDIA Corporation has a 12 month low of $164.27 and a 12 month high of $237.88. The stock has a 50-day moving average price of $218.74 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $207.48.
NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA – Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, August 26th. The computer hardware maker reported $2.22 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $2.09 by $0.13. NVIDIA had a net margin of 63.66% and a return on equity of 96.04%. The business had revenue of $96.22 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $92.27 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $1.05 EPS. The firm’s revenue was up 105.9% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, analysts forecast that NVIDIA Corporation will post 9.25 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
NVIDIA Dividend Announcement The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, October 1st. Stockholders of record on Thursday, September 10th were issued a dividend of $0.25 per share. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, September 10th. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.4%. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio is 12.64%.
NVIDIA declared that its board has initiated a stock buyback plan on Monday, September 28th that permits the company to repurchase $150.00 billion in shares. This repurchase authorization permits the computer hardware maker to buy up to 2.8% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are typically a sign that the company’s board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.
NVIDIA Profile (Free Report)
NVIDIA Corporation is a technology company that designs accelerated computing platforms, graphics processing units (GPUs), central processing units (CPUs), networking products and related software. Its technologies are used in artificial intelligence, data centers, scientific and technical computing, gaming, professional visualization, automotive systems and robotics.
The company’s products include GeForce GPUs and gaming software, data center computing platforms, networking solutions, and enterprise software for AI development and deployment.
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Mmbg Investment Advisors CO. lifted its holdings in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA – Free Report) by 3.0% during the 2nd quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 272,239 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after acquiring an additional 7,929 shares during the period. NVIDIA makes up approximately 4.3% of Mmbg Investment Advisors CO.’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 7th largest position. Mmbg Investment Advisors CO.’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $54,472,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
Other hedge funds have also bought and sold shares of the company. Bank of America Corp DE grew its position in shares of NVIDIA by 2.1% during the 1st quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 191,200,989 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $33,345,453,000 after purchasing an additional 4,019,505 shares in the last quarter. Invesco Ltd. raised its position in shares of NVIDIA by 0.3% in the fourth quarter. Invesco Ltd. now owns 143,239,504 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $26,714,167,000 after buying an additional 446,178 shares in the last quarter. J. Stern & Co. LLP boosted its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 13,709.1% in the fourth quarter. J. Stern & Co. LLP now owns 125,760,307 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $23,454,297,000 after buying an additional 124,849,603 shares during the period. Amundi boosted its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 10.4% in the first quarter. Amundi now owns 133,768,018 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $23,329,141,000 after buying an additional 12,575,177 shares during the period. Finally, Deutsche Bank AG grew its position in NVIDIA by 2.3% during the second quarter. Deutsche Bank AG now owns 91,954,159 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $18,399,108,000 after buying an additional 2,045,101 shares in the last quarter. 65.27% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.
Insider Activity at NVIDIA In other NVIDIA news, CFO Colette Kress sold 34,918 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, September 17th. The stock was sold at an average price of $219.05, for a total value of $7,648,787.90. Following the transaction, the chief financial officer directly owned 765,103 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $167,595,812.15. The trade was a 4.36% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, EVP Timothy S. Teter sold 30,460 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, September 21st. The stock was sold at an average price of $222.80, for a total value of $6,786,488.00. Following the transaction, the executive vice president owned 2,687,660 shares in the company, valued at $598,810,648. The trade was a 1.12% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Insiders have sold a total of 1,766,118 shares of company stock worth $399,450,353 in the last 90 days. Corporate insiders own 3.94% of the company’s stock.
NVIDIA Trading Up 1.3% NASDAQ:NVDA opened at $233.95 on Friday. The firm’s fifty day moving average is $218.74 and its 200-day moving average is $207.48. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14, a quick ratio of 3.85 and a current ratio of 4.59. NVIDIA Corporation has a 52 week low of $164.27 and a 52 week high of $237.88. The firm has a market cap of $5.64 trillion, a P/E ratio of 29.58, a P/E/G ratio of 1.78 and a beta of 2.22. NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA – Get Free Report) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, August 26th. The computer hardware maker reported $2.22 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $2.09 by $0.13. The business had revenue of $96.22 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $92.27 billion. NVIDIA had a net margin of 63.66% and a return on equity of 96.04%. NVIDIA’s revenue for the quarter was up 105.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $1.05 earnings per share. Equities analysts expect that NVIDIA Corporation will post 9.25 earnings per share for the current year.
NVIDIA declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a stock buyback program on Monday, September 28th that authorizes the company to buyback $150.00 billion in outstanding shares. This buyback authorization authorizes the computer hardware maker to purchase up to 2.8% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are typically an indication that the company’s leadership believes its shares are undervalued.
NVIDIA Announces Dividend The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, October 1st. Stockholders of record on Thursday, September 10th were paid a $0.25 dividend. This represents a $1.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.4%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, September 10th. NVIDIA’s payout ratio is currently 12.64%.
Analyst Ratings Changes A number of research firms have commented on NVDA. Rothschild & Co Redburn raised their price objective on NVIDIA from $300.00 to $325.00 in a research note on Thursday, August 27th. Piper Sandler assumed coverage on NVIDIA in a report on Wednesday, September 9th. They set an “overweight” rating and a $300.00 target price on the stock. Itau BBA Securities dropped their price target on NVIDIA from $256.00 to $218.00 in a research note on Wednesday, June 24th. HSBC increased their price objective on shares of NVIDIA from $360.00 to $365.00 in a research note on Thursday, August 27th. Finally, Benchmark reissued a “buy” rating and issued a $335.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, August 27th. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty have assigned a Buy rating and one has issued a Hold rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, NVIDIA presently has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of $320.71.
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More NVIDIA News Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:
Positive Sentiment: Morgan Stanley named NVIDIA its top semiconductor pick, maintaining an Overweight rating and setting a $300 price target. The firm believes NVIDIA’s software ecosystem, scale and positioning across AI infrastructure trends give it a durable competitive moat. Morgan Stanley names NVIDIA a top pick Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA’s recently announced $150 billion buyback authorization lifts total remaining repurchase capacity to approximately $235 billion. Investors view the plan as a sign of management confidence and a potential source of per-share earnings support. NVIDIA buyback analysis Positive Sentiment: Analysts continue to raise expectations for hyperscaler spending, with Barclays estimating NVIDIA could generate $401 billion in hyperscaler revenue in 2027. CoreWeave’s launch of the Vera Rubin platform and additional enterprise customers also supports demand for NVIDIA’s next-generation systems. Barclays hyperscaler revenue estimate Neutral Sentiment: The broader semiconductor and technology complex is attracting buying interest as AI investment remains a major market leadership theme. However, NVIDIA’s valuation and substantial market concentration leave the stock sensitive to interest rates, economic data and shifts in institutional positioning. Negative Sentiment: Investors are monitoring reports that Amazon may move roughly $8 billion of NVIDIA chips off its balance sheet through leasing or financing structures. While this could improve customer flexibility, it adds scrutiny around AI infrastructure financing and so-called circular transactions. Amazon NVIDIA chip balance-sheet report Negative Sentiment: Export-control concerns remain a headline risk after prosecutors alleged a California man helped smuggle approximately $300 million of NVIDIA chips to China. Separately, Michael Burry warned that GPU depreciation could undermine the economics of the AI infrastructure boom, while Alphabet’s growing use of internally designed chips represents a longer-term competitive threat. NVIDIA chip smuggling prosecution NVIDIA Profile (Free Report)
NVIDIA Corporation is a technology company that designs accelerated computing platforms, graphics processing units (GPUs), central processing units (CPUs), networking products and related software. Its technologies are used in artificial intelligence, data centers, scientific and technical computing, gaming, professional visualization, automotive systems and robotics.
The company’s products include GeForce GPUs and gaming software, data center computing platforms, networking solutions, and enterprise software for AI development and deployment.
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Knuff & Co LLC ve 2. čtvrtletí zvýšila podíl ve společnosti NVIDIA o 22,6 % na 49 535 akcií po nákupu dalších 9 120 kusů. Podíl měl na konci období hodnotu 9 911 000 USD.
Knuff & Co LLC raised its position in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA – Free Report) by 22.6% in the second quarter, according to its most recent filing with the SEC. The firm owned 49,535 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after purchasing an additional 9,120 shares during the quarter. NVIDIA makes up approximately 2.5% of Knuff & Co LLC’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 12th largest holding. Knuff & Co LLC’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $9,911,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
A number of other institutional investors also recently modified their holdings of the company. Denali Advisors LLC raised its stake in NVIDIA by 0.4% during the second quarter. Denali Advisors LLC now owns 219,391 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $43,898,000 after buying an additional 825 shares during the last quarter. Flossbach Von Storch SE increased its holdings in NVIDIA by 506.4% in the second quarter. Flossbach Von Storch SE now owns 1,966,637 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $393,504,000 after purchasing an additional 1,642,337 shares in the last quarter. Freedom Investment Management Inc. lifted its stake in NVIDIA by 17.1% in the second quarter. Freedom Investment Management Inc. now owns 2,051 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $410,000 after buying an additional 300 shares during the period. Empirical Asset Management LLC lifted its stake in NVIDIA by 27.0% in the second quarter. Empirical Asset Management LLC now owns 49,426 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $9,890,000 after buying an additional 10,511 shares during the period. Finally, Catalyst Investment Management LLC grew its position in shares of NVIDIA by 14.7% during the 2nd quarter. Catalyst Investment Management LLC now owns 6,292 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $1,259,000 after buying an additional 808 shares during the period. 65.27% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.
Analysts Set New Price Targets Several research analysts recently issued reports on the stock. Wedbush increased their target price on shares of NVIDIA from $330.00 to $345.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Thursday, August 27th. Needham & Company LLC reiterated a “buy” rating and set a $300.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA in a report on Friday, September 4th. Piper Sandler assumed coverage on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Wednesday, September 9th. They set an “overweight” rating and a $300.00 price objective on the stock. Sanford C. Bernstein restated a “buy” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Monday, September 21st. Finally, Wall Street Zen downgraded NVIDIA from a “strong-buy” rating to a “buy” rating in a research note on Saturday, September 26th. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty have issued a Buy rating and one has issued a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of $320.71.
View Our Latest Research Report on NVDA NVIDIA Trading Up 1.3% Shares of NVDA opened at $233.95 on Friday. The business’s 50-day moving average price is $218.74 and its 200-day moving average price is $207.48. The stock has a market cap of $5.64 trillion, a PE ratio of 29.58, a P/E/G ratio of 1.78 and a beta of 2.22. The company has a quick ratio of 3.85, a current ratio of 4.59 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14. NVIDIA Corporation has a twelve month low of $164.27 and a twelve month high of $237.88.
NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA – Get Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, August 26th. The computer hardware maker reported $2.22 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.09 by $0.13. The firm had revenue of $96.22 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $92.27 billion. NVIDIA had a net margin of 63.66% and a return on equity of 96.04%. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 105.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $1.05 earnings per share. On average, equities analysts forecast that NVIDIA Corporation will post 9.25 EPS for the current fiscal year.
NVIDIA Announces Dividend The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, October 1st. Shareholders of record on Thursday, September 10th were given a dividend of $0.25 per share. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, September 10th. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.4%. NVIDIA’s payout ratio is presently 12.64%.
NVIDIA declared that its Board of Directors has approved a stock repurchase plan on Monday, September 28th that permits the company to buyback $150.00 billion in outstanding shares. This buyback authorization permits the computer hardware maker to repurchase up to 2.8% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are generally a sign that the company’s management believes its shares are undervalued.
Insiders Place Their Bets In related news, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 622,239 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Friday, September 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $231.62, for a total value of $144,122,997.18. Following the completion of the transaction, the director directly owned 2,336,531 shares in the company, valued at approximately $541,187,310.22. The trade was a 21.03% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through the SEC website. Also, CFO Colette Kress sold 34,918 shares of the stock in a transaction on Thursday, September 17th. The shares were sold at an average price of $219.05, for a total value of $7,648,787.90. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief financial officer directly owned 765,103 shares in the company, valued at approximately $167,595,812.15. This represents a 4.36% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Insiders sold a total of 1,766,118 shares of company stock valued at $399,450,353 in the last quarter. Corporate insiders own 3.94% of the company’s stock.
Key NVIDIA News Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:
Positive Sentiment: Morgan Stanley named NVIDIA its top semiconductor pick, maintaining an Overweight rating and setting a $300 price target. The firm believes NVIDIA’s software ecosystem, scale and positioning across AI infrastructure trends give it a durable competitive moat. Morgan Stanley names NVIDIA a top pick Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA’s recently announced $150 billion buyback authorization lifts total remaining repurchase capacity to approximately $235 billion. Investors view the plan as a sign of management confidence and a potential source of per-share earnings support. NVIDIA buyback analysis Positive Sentiment: Analysts continue to raise expectations for hyperscaler spending, with Barclays estimating NVIDIA could generate $401 billion in hyperscaler revenue in 2027. CoreWeave’s launch of the Vera Rubin platform and additional enterprise customers also supports demand for NVIDIA’s next-generation systems. Barclays hyperscaler revenue estimate Neutral Sentiment: The broader semiconductor and technology complex is attracting buying interest as AI investment remains a major market leadership theme. However, NVIDIA’s valuation and substantial market concentration leave the stock sensitive to interest rates, economic data and shifts in institutional positioning. Negative Sentiment: Investors are monitoring reports that Amazon may move roughly $8 billion of NVIDIA chips off its balance sheet through leasing or financing structures. While this could improve customer flexibility, it adds scrutiny around AI infrastructure financing and so-called circular transactions. Amazon NVIDIA chip balance-sheet report Negative Sentiment: Export-control concerns remain a headline risk after prosecutors alleged a California man helped smuggle approximately $300 million of NVIDIA chips to China. Separately, Michael Burry warned that GPU depreciation could undermine the economics of the AI infrastructure boom, while Alphabet’s growing use of internally designed chips represents a longer-term competitive threat. NVIDIA chip smuggling prosecution About NVIDIA (Free Report)
NVIDIA Corporation is a technology company that designs accelerated computing platforms, graphics processing units (GPUs), central processing units (CPUs), networking products and related software. Its technologies are used in artificial intelligence, data centers, scientific and technical computing, gaming, professional visualization, automotive systems and robotics.
The company’s products include GeForce GPUs and gaming software, data center computing platforms, networking solutions, and enterprise software for AI development and deployment.
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Stevens Capital Partners ve 2. čtvrtletí zvýšil podíl ve společnosti NVIDIA o 67,5 % na 22 339 akcií po nákupu dalších 9 000 kusů. Hodnota podílu činila 4,47 mil. USD.
Stevens Capital Partners raised its stake in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA – Free Report) by 67.5% in the 2nd quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 22,339 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after acquiring an additional 9,000 shares during the period. NVIDIA accounts for approximately 0.9% of Stevens Capital Partners’ portfolio, making the stock its 15th largest position. Stevens Capital Partners’ holdings in NVIDIA were worth $4,470,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
Other hedge funds have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Boyd Wealth Management LLC increased its stake in NVIDIA by 273.4% in the 2nd quarter. Boyd Wealth Management LLC now owns 9,145 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $1,830,000 after buying an additional 6,696 shares during the period. Altshuler Shaham Ltd lifted its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 6,451.9% in the 1st quarter. Altshuler Shaham Ltd now owns 637,236 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $111,134,000 after acquiring an additional 627,510 shares during the period. Storen Legacy Partners LLC purchased a new stake in shares of NVIDIA in the fourth quarter valued at about $1,350,000. Baker Tilly Wealth Management LLC boosted its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 7.4% in the second quarter. Baker Tilly Wealth Management LLC now owns 71,898 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $14,386,000 after acquiring an additional 4,958 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Arrowstreet Capital Limited Partnership increased its stake in shares of NVIDIA by 3.6% during the fourth quarter. Arrowstreet Capital Limited Partnership now owns 26,652,420 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $4,970,704,000 after acquiring an additional 936,506 shares during the period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 65.27% of the company’s stock.
Wall Street Analyst Weigh In NVDA has been the subject of a number of recent analyst reports. DZ Bank restated a “buy” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Wednesday, August 26th. Weiss Ratings reiterated a “buy (b)” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Wednesday, July 8th. DA Davidson reissued a “buy” rating and set a $300.00 target price on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Thursday, August 27th. Rothschild & Co Redburn raised their price target on NVIDIA from $300.00 to $325.00 in a report on Thursday, August 27th. Finally, Piper Sandler began coverage on NVIDIA in a research note on Wednesday, September 9th. They issued an “overweight” rating and a $300.00 price target on the stock. Four analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty have given a Buy rating and one has given a Hold rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, NVIDIA currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of $320.71.
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Positive Sentiment: Morgan Stanley named NVIDIA its top semiconductor pick, maintaining an Overweight rating and setting a $300 price target. The firm believes NVIDIA’s software ecosystem, scale and positioning across AI infrastructure trends give it a durable competitive moat. Morgan Stanley names NVIDIA a top pick Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA’s recently announced $150 billion buyback authorization lifts total remaining repurchase capacity to approximately $235 billion. Investors view the plan as a sign of management confidence and a potential source of per-share earnings support. NVIDIA buyback analysis Positive Sentiment: Analysts continue to raise expectations for hyperscaler spending, with Barclays estimating NVIDIA could generate $401 billion in hyperscaler revenue in 2027. CoreWeave’s launch of the Vera Rubin platform and additional enterprise customers also supports demand for NVIDIA’s next-generation systems. Barclays hyperscaler revenue estimate Neutral Sentiment: The broader semiconductor and technology complex is attracting buying interest as AI investment remains a major market leadership theme. However, NVIDIA’s valuation and substantial market concentration leave the stock sensitive to interest rates, economic data and shifts in institutional positioning. Negative Sentiment: Investors are monitoring reports that Amazon may move roughly $8 billion of NVIDIA chips off its balance sheet through leasing or financing structures. While this could improve customer flexibility, it adds scrutiny around AI infrastructure financing and so-called circular transactions. Amazon NVIDIA chip balance-sheet report Negative Sentiment: Export-control concerns remain a headline risk after prosecutors alleged a California man helped smuggle approximately $300 million of NVIDIA chips to China. Separately, Michael Burry warned that GPU depreciation could undermine the economics of the AI infrastructure boom, while Alphabet’s growing use of internally designed chips represents a longer-term competitive threat. NVIDIA chip smuggling prosecution Insiders Place Their Bets In other NVIDIA news, Director Mark Stevens sold 622,239 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, September 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $231.62, for a total value of $144,122,997.18. Following the completion of the transaction, the director directly owned 2,336,531 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $541,187,310.22. This represents a 21.03% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. Also, CFO Colette Kress sold 34,918 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, September 17th. The shares were sold at an average price of $219.05, for a total value of $7,648,787.90. Following the transaction, the chief financial officer owned 765,103 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $167,595,812.15. This trade represents a 4.36% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Insiders have sold 1,766,118 shares of company stock worth $399,450,353 in the last quarter. 3.94% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.
NVIDIA Stock Up 1.3% Shares of NASDAQ:NVDA opened at $233.95 on Friday. The company has a current ratio of 4.59, a quick ratio of 3.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14. The firm has a market cap of $5.64 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 29.58, a PEG ratio of 1.78 and a beta of 2.22. The stock’s 50-day moving average price is $218.74 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $207.48. NVIDIA Corporation has a 12-month low of $164.27 and a 12-month high of $237.88.
NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA – Get Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, August 26th. The computer hardware maker reported $2.22 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.09 by $0.13. NVIDIA had a net margin of 63.66% and a return on equity of 96.04%. The business had revenue of $96.22 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $92.27 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $1.05 EPS. The company’s revenue was up 105.9% on a year-over-year basis. On average, research analysts forecast that NVIDIA Corporation will post 9.25 EPS for the current year.
NVIDIA Announces Dividend The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, October 1st. Stockholders of record on Thursday, September 10th were paid a $0.25 dividend. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, September 10th. This represents a $1.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.4%. NVIDIA’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 12.64%.
NVIDIA declared that its Board of Directors has approved a share buyback plan on Monday, September 28th that authorizes the company to repurchase $150.00 billion in shares. This repurchase authorization authorizes the computer hardware maker to purchase up to 2.8% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are typically an indication that the company’s leadership believes its stock is undervalued.
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NVIDIA Corporation is a technology company that designs accelerated computing platforms, graphics processing units (GPUs), central processing units (CPUs), networking products and related software. Its technologies are used in artificial intelligence, data centers, scientific and technical computing, gaming, professional visualization, automotive systems and robotics.
The company’s products include GeForce GPUs and gaming software, data center computing platforms, networking solutions, and enterprise software for AI development and deployment.
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Wedbush Securities Inc. decreased its holdings in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA – Free Report) by 0.7% in the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 926,896 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after selling 6,414 shares during the period. NVIDIA comprises 4.8% of Wedbush Securities Inc.’s portfolio, making the stock its 3rd biggest holding. Wedbush Securities Inc.’s holdings in NVIDIA were worth $185,463,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.
Several other large investors also recently modified their holdings of the stock. Bank of America Corp DE grew its holdings in NVIDIA by 2.2% during the 2nd quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 195,366,864 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $39,090,956,000 after acquiring an additional 4,165,875 shares during the last quarter. Invesco Ltd. increased its holdings in NVIDIA by 0.3% in the fourth quarter. Invesco Ltd. now owns 143,239,504 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $26,714,167,000 after purchasing an additional 446,178 shares during the last quarter. J. Stern & Co. LLP raised its position in shares of NVIDIA by 13,709.1% in the 4th quarter. J. Stern & Co. LLP now owns 125,760,307 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $23,454,297,000 after acquiring an additional 124,849,603 shares during the period. Amundi boosted its position in shares of NVIDIA by 10.4% during the first quarter. Amundi now owns 133,768,018 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $23,329,141,000 after purchasing an additional 12,575,177 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Deutsche Bank AG grew its stake in NVIDIA by 2.3% in the second quarter. Deutsche Bank AG now owns 91,954,159 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $18,399,108,000 after acquiring an additional 2,045,101 shares during the period. 65.27% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.
NVIDIA Trading Up 1.3% NVDA stock opened at $233.95 on Friday. NVIDIA Corporation has a one year low of $164.27 and a one year high of $237.88. The stock has a market cap of $5.64 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 29.58, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.78 and a beta of 2.22. The company has a fifty day moving average price of $218.74 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $207.48. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14, a current ratio of 4.59 and a quick ratio of 3.85.
NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA – Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, August 26th. The computer hardware maker reported $2.22 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $2.09 by $0.13. The company had revenue of $96.22 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $92.27 billion. NVIDIA had a net margin of 63.66% and a return on equity of 96.04%. The company’s revenue was up 105.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $1.05 earnings per share. Equities analysts anticipate that NVIDIA Corporation will post 9.25 EPS for the current year. NVIDIA Announces Dividend The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, October 1st. Investors of record on Thursday, September 10th were given a dividend of $0.25 per share. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, September 10th. This represents a $1.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.4%. NVIDIA’s payout ratio is currently 12.64%.
NVIDIA declared that its board has authorized a share buyback plan on Monday, September 28th that authorizes the company to buyback $150.00 billion in shares. This buyback authorization authorizes the computer hardware maker to buy up to 2.8% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are often a sign that the company’s leadership believes its shares are undervalued.
Key NVIDIA News Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week:
Positive Sentiment: Morgan Stanley named NVIDIA its top semiconductor pick, maintaining an Overweight rating and setting a $300 price target. The firm believes NVIDIA’s software ecosystem, scale and positioning across AI infrastructure trends give it a durable competitive moat. Morgan Stanley names NVIDIA a top pick Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA’s recently announced $150 billion buyback authorization lifts total remaining repurchase capacity to approximately $235 billion. Investors view the plan as a sign of management confidence and a potential source of per-share earnings support. NVIDIA buyback analysis Positive Sentiment: Analysts continue to raise expectations for hyperscaler spending, with Barclays estimating NVIDIA could generate $401 billion in hyperscaler revenue in 2027. CoreWeave’s launch of the Vera Rubin platform and additional enterprise customers also supports demand for NVIDIA’s next-generation systems. Barclays hyperscaler revenue estimate Neutral Sentiment: The broader semiconductor and technology complex is attracting buying interest as AI investment remains a major market leadership theme. However, NVIDIA’s valuation and substantial market concentration leave the stock sensitive to interest rates, economic data and shifts in institutional positioning. Negative Sentiment: Investors are monitoring reports that Amazon may move roughly $8 billion of NVIDIA chips off its balance sheet through leasing or financing structures. While this could improve customer flexibility, it adds scrutiny around AI infrastructure financing and so-called circular transactions. Amazon NVIDIA chip balance-sheet report Negative Sentiment: Export-control concerns remain a headline risk after prosecutors alleged a California man helped smuggle approximately $300 million of NVIDIA chips to China. Separately, Michael Burry warned that GPU depreciation could undermine the economics of the AI infrastructure boom, while Alphabet’s growing use of internally designed chips represents a longer-term competitive threat. NVIDIA chip smuggling prosecution Wall Street Analyst Weigh In Several equities research analysts recently commented on the stock. Cantor Fitzgerald reaffirmed an “overweight” rating and issued a $350.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Thursday. BMO Capital Markets set a $340.00 price target on NVIDIA and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Thursday, August 20th. Melius Research set a $420.00 price objective on NVIDIA in a report on Thursday, August 27th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft restated a “buy” rating on shares of NVIDIA in a research note on Monday, August 31st. Finally, Royal Bank Of Canada upped their price target on NVIDIA from $300.00 to $330.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Thursday, August 27th. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty have assigned a Buy rating and one has issued a Hold rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, NVIDIA has an average rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $320.71.
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Insider Transactions at NVIDIA In other NVIDIA news, CFO Colette Kress sold 34,918 shares of NVIDIA stock in a transaction dated Thursday, September 17th. The stock was sold at an average price of $219.05, for a total transaction of $7,648,787.90. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief financial officer owned 765,103 shares in the company, valued at approximately $167,595,812.15. The trade was a 4.36% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, Director Mark A. Stevens sold 622,239 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Friday, September 4th. The stock was sold at an average price of $231.62, for a total transaction of $144,122,997.18. Following the completion of the sale, the director owned 2,336,531 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $541,187,310.22. The trade was a 21.03% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. In the last 90 days, insiders have sold 1,766,118 shares of company stock worth $399,450,353. Company insiders own 3.94% of the company’s stock.
NVIDIA Profile (Free Report)
NVIDIA Corporation is a technology company that designs accelerated computing platforms, graphics processing units (GPUs), central processing units (CPUs), networking products and related software. Its technologies are used in artificial intelligence, data centers, scientific and technical computing, gaming, professional visualization, automotive systems and robotics.
The company’s products include GeForce GPUs and gaming software, data center computing platforms, networking solutions, and enterprise software for AI development and deployment.
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AI agenti nyní spotřebují asi pětkrát více tokenů než lidé, což dál zvyšuje poptávku po hardwaru společnosti NVIDIA. Tržby divize Data Center firmy ve druhém fiskálním čtvrtletí vyskočily na 89,02 miliardy USD, meziročně o 117 %.
AI agents are consuming tokens at a pace that dwarfs human usage, and the companies supplying the hardware behind every request are seeing that demand translate into numbers that few investors expected to see this soon.
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One Number: $89.02 Billion From the Machines That Make Tokens NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA | NVDA Price Prediction) generated $89.02 billion in Data Center revenue in a single quarter. That figure covers the second quarter of fiscal 2027, reported on August 26, 2026, and it rose 117% year over year. Total company revenue for the quarter was $96.22 billion, so the Data Center segment produced almost all of it. That segment holds the GPUs, CPUs and networking gear that AI models run on to produce tokens.
Token demand is also changing shape. OpenRouter data shows agentic token usage rose from roughly 0.51 trillion tokens in February to about 7.3 trillion by August, a fourteenfold increase. Human usage grew only about 2.8 times over the same stretch, to approximately 1.4 trillion tokens. AI agents now use roughly five times more tokens than people do. NVIDIA’s $89.02 billion is what that shift looks like on an income statement.
What $89.02 Billion Reveals About Agent-Driven Demand The growth is accelerating. Data Center revenue rose 18% quarter over quarter, and total revenue growth sped up for the fourth consecutive quarter. Hyperscale customers contributed $49 billion, up 13% sequentially. The group that covers neoclouds, enterprises, sovereign customers and industrial buyers grew faster, reaching $40 billion, up 25% sequentially and 138% year over year. Demand is spreading beyond a handful of cloud giants.
Agents are the main reason. According to the OpenRouter data, agents use roughly fifteen times more tokens per request than people. One employee action can set off dozens of model calls, tool runs and retries. Chief Executive Jensen Huang described where this is heading on the earnings call: “When the world goes to agentic, fully agentic systems, you’re going to have agents running all the time, working with other agents running all the time.”
NVIDIA is making more money on each dollar of sales as it grows. Non-GAAP gross margin expanded to 75.0% from 72.5% a year earlier, and net income reached $59.69 billion, up 125.9%. Huang summed it up: “AI has reached its inflection point. It’s doing useful work. Its tokens are productive and profitable. Now, compute is revenue.”
Shares Have Climbed Since the August Earnings Report Shares were priced at $213.67 when the results came out on August 26, 2026, and closed at $233.95 on October 2, 2026. The stock is up 25.74% so far this year and gained 4.37% over the past month.
Bull Case: Demand Outruns NVIDIA’s Supply NVIDIA can’t build enough to meet demand. Management said “NVIDIA Compute is fully utilized across every cloud we serve” and that the company has supply for about 70% of expected demand. NVIDIA expects fiscal 2028 revenue to grow about 70%, and it says supply is what limits that number. Customers are the ones asking for more.
Each new chip generation also brings in more revenue per unit of power. NVIDIA puts its revenue opportunity per gigawatt at roughly $18 billion for Hopper, about $25 billion for Grace Blackwell and about $40 billion for Vera Rubin. Supply and purchase obligations have climbed to $279.00 billion, mostly to buy memory for Vera Rubin production. That shows how much NVIDIA is investing to the ramp ahead.
Shareholders are getting paid along the way. NVIDIA returned about $26.0 billion in the quarter and still has about $99.0 billion left on its buyback authorization. Analysts keep raising estimates: over the past 30 days, fiscal 2028 EPS forecasts got 42 upward revisions and 0 downward ones.
Risks remain: about 85% of agentic tokens come from cached prompts charged at lower rates. Gross margin is expected to bottom at 71% to 72% in the fourth quarter as memory costs rise. Days sales outstanding, a measure of how long customers take to pay, extended to 60 days from 45. Online sentiment has also cooled, with the overall sentiment score falling to 37.17. Even so, cached tokens still need servers, memory and power to run. The supply shortages NVIDIA flagged in memory, power, cooling and networking also bring in business for Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU), Vertiv (NYSE:VRT), Eaton (NYSE:ETN) and Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET). We profiled seven of these picks-and-shovels suppliers, from power to cooling to networking, in a free report you can grab here.
Bottom Line: Third-Quarter Guidance Is the Next Checkpoint The $89.02 billion figure shows token demand turning into revenue, and agents are adding to that demand faster than people are. NVIDIA’s own guidance gives the next checkpoint: third-quarter revenue of $108.0 billion, plus or minus 2%, which excludes China data center compute. Vera Rubin is expected to make up about 20% of data center revenue in Q3. Long-term holders should note that AI agents now run around the clock, and each request they make adds to the demand for NVIDIA’s hardware.
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National Pension Service ve 2. čtvrtletí zvýšil svůj podíl v JPMorgan Chase & Co. o 0,7 % na 5 549 588 akcií. Hodnota pozice činila 1,816547 miliardy USD.
National Pension Service increased its position in shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM – Free Report) by 0.7% in the 2nd quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 5,549,588 shares of the financial services provider’s stock after buying an additional 36,291 shares during the period. JPMorgan Chase & Co. accounts for approximately 1.2% of National Pension Service’s holdings, making the stock its 16th biggest position. National Pension Service owned about 0.21% of JPMorgan Chase & Co. worth $1,816,547,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
Several other institutional investors also recently added to or reduced their stakes in JPM. Cidel Asset Management Inc. increased its position in JPMorgan Chase & Co. by 3.7% during the second quarter. Cidel Asset Management Inc. now owns 97,432 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $31,892,000 after acquiring an additional 3,446 shares during the period. Concorde Asset Management LLC lifted its stake in shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. by 1.1% in the second quarter. Concorde Asset Management LLC now owns 2,660 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $871,000 after buying an additional 29 shares during the period. Pinnacle Wealth Management Advisory Group LLC lifted its stake in shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. by 3.9% in the second quarter. Pinnacle Wealth Management Advisory Group LLC now owns 42,093 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $13,778,000 after buying an additional 1,590 shares during the period. NorthRock Partners LLC grew its position in JPMorgan Chase & Co. by 3.4% during the second quarter. NorthRock Partners LLC now owns 62,473 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $20,449,000 after buying an additional 2,063 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Integrated Wealth Concepts LLC grew its position in JPMorgan Chase & Co. by 18.0% during the second quarter. Integrated Wealth Concepts LLC now owns 233,142 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $76,314,000 after buying an additional 35,582 shares in the last quarter. 71.55% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.
Insiders Place Their Bets In related news, insider Robin Leopold sold 2,500 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, September 10th. The shares were sold at an average price of $352.81, for a total transaction of $882,025.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider owned 71,047 shares in the company, valued at approximately $25,066,092.07. The trade was a 3.40% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. 0.41% of the stock is owned by insiders.
Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades Several research firms have commented on JPM. Truist Financial upped their price target on JPMorgan Chase & Co. from $344.00 to $352.00 and gave the company a “hold” rating in a report on Wednesday, July 15th. Weiss Ratings upgraded JPMorgan Chase & Co. from a “buy (b)” rating to a “buy (b+)” rating in a research report on Wednesday, September 2nd. The Goldman Sachs Group restated a “buy” rating and issued a $418.00 target price on shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. in a research note on Tuesday, July 14th. Robert W. Baird lifted their price target on shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. from $295.00 to $305.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research note on Wednesday, July 15th. Finally, Bank of America boosted their price target on shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. from $408.00 to $420.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, July 16th. Sixteen research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and twelve have assigned a Hold rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $363.29. Read Our Latest Report on JPM
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Stock Performance Shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. stock opened at $332.18 on Friday. The firm has a fifty day moving average of $352.44 and a two-hundred day moving average of $327.11. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.30, a quick ratio of 0.85 and a current ratio of 0.85. The stock has a market capitalization of $882.99 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 14.23, a PEG ratio of 1.39 and a beta of 1.02. JPMorgan Chase & Co. has a 52 week low of $279.10 and a 52 week high of $366.50.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM – Get Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, July 14th. The financial services provider reported $6.14 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $5.59 by $0.55. The business had revenue of $58.02 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $50.72 billion. JPMorgan Chase & Co. had a return on equity of 18.23% and a net margin of 21.86%.The firm’s revenue was up 27.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company earned $4.96 EPS. As a group, equities research analysts predict that JPMorgan Chase & Co. will post 24.11 EPS for the current year.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Increases Dividend The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Saturday, October 31st. Investors of record on Tuesday, October 6th will be paid a dividend of $1.65 per share. This represents a $6.60 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.0%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, October 6th. This is a positive change from JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s previous quarterly dividend of $1.50. JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s payout ratio is 25.71%.
Trending Headlines about JPMorgan Chase & Co. Here are the key news stories impacting JPMorgan Chase & Co. this week:
Positive Sentiment: JPMorgan’s strong earnings-surprise history and favorable Zacks indicators suggest the bank may again exceed estimates in its upcoming quarterly report. Will JPMorgan Chase & Co. Beat Estimates Again? Positive Sentiment: Analysts collectively maintain a “Moderate Buy” recommendation, supporting the view that JPM’s valuation remains attractive despite recent weakness. JPMorgan Receives Moderate Buy Consensus Positive Sentiment: J.P. Morgan Payments partnered with Al Salam Bank on an overnight Murabaha liquidity solution, expanding its payments and Islamic-finance capabilities in Bahrain. Al Salam Bank and J.P. Morgan Payments Feature Liquidity Solution Positive Sentiment: The Federal Reserve’s revamped stress-testing framework could reduce volatility in banks’ capital requirements and improve planning visibility for JPMorgan. Fed Revamps Bank Stress Tests Positive Sentiment: JPMorgan remains highlighted as an income-oriented stock with an upcoming dividend ex-date, which may support demand from dividend investors. High-Yield Dividends With Ex-Dates Days Away Neutral Sentiment: JPMorgan’s bond-market activity shows continued access to wholesale funding, but investors are assessing whether the additional borrowing improves growth or pressures the capital structure. JPMorgan Taps Bond Markets Neutral Sentiment: The elevation of Doug Petno and Troy Rohrbaugh to co-presidents advances succession planning, but also increases investor focus on the eventual replacement for CEO Jamie Dimon. JPMorgan Elevates Co-Presidents Negative Sentiment: JPMorgan’s credit-loss reserve grew even though provisions declined year over year during the first half of 2026. The unusual combination may signal conservatism, but it also raises questions about management’s expectations for future loan losses ahead of third-quarter results. JPMorgan Reserves for Losses That Have Not Arrived Negative Sentiment: Broad selling across money-center banks has weighed on JPMorgan and the wider financial sector, reflecting reduced investor risk appetite rather than a company-specific catalyst. Bank Stocks Slide JPMorgan Chase & Co. Profile (Free Report)
JPMorgan Chase & Co is a global financial services company headquartered in New York City. Through its businesses, the company provides banking, investment banking, asset management, private banking, commercial banking, consumer lending and payment services to individuals, businesses, institutions and governments.
The company operates through major business areas that include Consumer & Community Banking, Commercial & Investment Banking, and Asset & Wealth Management. Its products and services include deposit accounts, credit cards, mortgages, auto loans, business financing, investment and advisory services, securities trading and custody, payment processing, and wealth-management solutions.
JPMorgan Chase serves customers in the United States and maintains operations and client relationships across international markets.
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The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company ve druhém čtvrtletí snížila podíl v JPMorgan Chase o 1,6 % na 2 473 477 akcií. Podíl měl hodnotu 809 644 000 USD.
The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company decreased its stake in JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) by 1.6% during the second quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 2,473,477 shares of the financial services provider’s stock after selling 40,705 shares during the period. The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company owned about 0.09% of JPMorgan Chase & Co. worth $809,644,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
Several other hedge funds have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Norges Bank bought a new position in shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. in the fourth quarter worth approximately $11,396,496,000. Bank of America Corp DE lifted its position in shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. by 15.8% in the 1st quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 65,660,460 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $19,314,681,000 after purchasing an additional 8,941,351 shares during the period. Ascentis Wealth Management LLC raised its position in shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. by 32,672.0% in the 2nd quarter. Ascentis Wealth Management LLC now owns 4,647,071 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $1,521,126,000 after acquiring an additional 4,632,891 shares in the last quarter. Jupiter Topco LLC bought a new stake in JPMorgan Chase & Co. during the second quarter worth about $1,274,097,000. Finally, Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan Trust Fund increased its position in JPMorgan Chase & Co. by 31.5% during the 1st quarter. Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan Trust Fund now owns 6,944,004 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $2,042,648,000 after buying an additional 1,662,250 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 71.55% of the company’s stock.
Analysts Set New Price Targets A number of brokerages have recently issued reports on JPM. Wells Fargo & Company upped their price target on JPMorgan Chase & Co. from $375.00 to $390.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Friday, August 14th. Morgan Stanley restated a “positive” rating and set a $370.00 price target on shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. in a research note on Wednesday, July 15th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft raised shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $375.00 price objective on the stock in a report on Wednesday, July 22nd. Jefferies Financial Group reaffirmed a “neutral” rating on shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. in a report on Friday, September 25th. Finally, Robert W. Baird lifted their price target on shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. from $295.00 to $305.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research note on Wednesday, July 15th. Sixteen investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and twelve have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $363.29.
Get Our Latest Report on JPMorgan Chase & Co. Insider Transactions at JPMorgan Chase & Co. In related news, insider Robin Leopold sold 2,500 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, September 10th. The stock was sold at an average price of $352.81, for a total transaction of $882,025.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider owned 71,047 shares in the company, valued at $25,066,092.07. The trade was a 3.40% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. 0.41% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.
Key JPMorgan Chase & Co. News Here are the key news stories impacting JPMorgan Chase & Co. this week:
Positive Sentiment: JPMorgan’s strong earnings-surprise history and favorable Zacks indicators suggest the bank may again exceed estimates in its upcoming quarterly report. Will JPMorgan Chase & Co. Beat Estimates Again? Positive Sentiment: Analysts collectively maintain a “Moderate Buy” recommendation, supporting the view that JPM’s valuation remains attractive despite recent weakness. JPMorgan Receives Moderate Buy Consensus Positive Sentiment: J.P. Morgan Payments partnered with Al Salam Bank on an overnight Murabaha liquidity solution, expanding its payments and Islamic-finance capabilities in Bahrain. Al Salam Bank and J.P. Morgan Payments Feature Liquidity Solution Positive Sentiment: The Federal Reserve’s revamped stress-testing framework could reduce volatility in banks’ capital requirements and improve planning visibility for JPMorgan. Fed Revamps Bank Stress Tests Positive Sentiment: JPMorgan remains highlighted as an income-oriented stock with an upcoming dividend ex-date, which may support demand from dividend investors. High-Yield Dividends With Ex-Dates Days Away Neutral Sentiment: JPMorgan’s bond-market activity shows continued access to wholesale funding, but investors are assessing whether the additional borrowing improves growth or pressures the capital structure. JPMorgan Taps Bond Markets Neutral Sentiment: The elevation of Doug Petno and Troy Rohrbaugh to co-presidents advances succession planning, but also increases investor focus on the eventual replacement for CEO Jamie Dimon. JPMorgan Elevates Co-Presidents Negative Sentiment: JPMorgan’s credit-loss reserve grew even though provisions declined year over year during the first half of 2026. The unusual combination may signal conservatism, but it also raises questions about management’s expectations for future loan losses ahead of third-quarter results. JPMorgan Reserves for Losses That Have Not Arrived Negative Sentiment: Broad selling across money-center banks has weighed on JPMorgan and the wider financial sector, reflecting reduced investor risk appetite rather than a company-specific catalyst. Bank Stocks Slide JPMorgan Chase & Co. Trading Down 0.3% JPM opened at $332.18 on Friday. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $352.44 and a 200 day moving average of $327.11. The company has a current ratio of 0.85, a quick ratio of 0.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.30. JPMorgan Chase & Co. has a 12 month low of $279.10 and a 12 month high of $366.50. The firm has a market cap of $882.99 billion, a P/E ratio of 14.23, a P/E/G ratio of 1.39 and a beta of 1.02.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM – Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, July 14th. The financial services provider reported $6.14 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $5.59 by $0.55. The company had revenue of $58.02 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $50.72 billion. JPMorgan Chase & Co. had a return on equity of 18.23% and a net margin of 21.86%.JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s revenue was up 27.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company earned $4.96 earnings per share. As a group, research analysts forecast that JPMorgan Chase & Co. will post 24.11 EPS for the current year.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Increases Dividend The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Saturday, October 31st. Investors of record on Tuesday, October 6th will be paid a dividend of $1.65 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, October 6th. This represents a $6.60 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.0%. This is an increase from JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s previous quarterly dividend of $1.50. JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s dividend payout ratio is 25.71%.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co is a global financial services company headquartered in New York City. Through its businesses, the company provides banking, investment banking, asset management, private banking, commercial banking, consumer lending and payment services to individuals, businesses, institutions and governments.
The company operates through major business areas that include Consumer & Community Banking, Commercial & Investment Banking, and Asset & Wealth Management. Its products and services include deposit accounts, credit cards, mortgages, auto loans, business financing, investment and advisory services, securities trading and custody, payment processing, and wealth-management solutions.
JPMorgan Chase serves customers in the United States and maintains operations and client relationships across international markets.
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SVB Wealth LLC trimmed its holdings in shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) by 12.3% during the second quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 82,982 shares of the financial services provider’s stock after selling 11,629 shares during the period. JPMorgan Chase & Co. makes up 1.6% of SVB Wealth LLC’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 14th largest holding. SVB Wealth LLC’s holdings in JPMorgan Chase & Co. were worth $27,163,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.
A number of other institutional investors also recently modified their holdings of the stock. MBM Wealth Consultants LLC bought a new stake in JPMorgan Chase & Co. in the 1st quarter valued at about $29,000. Aventus Investment Advisors Inc. bought a new stake in shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. during the second quarter valued at approximately $33,000. Osbon Capital Management LLC acquired a new position in shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. during the fourth quarter worth approximately $35,000. Timbuktu Capital Management LLC bought a new position in shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. in the 2nd quarter worth $50,000. Finally, NI Acquisitions Company LLC acquired a new stake in JPMorgan Chase & Co. in the 2nd quarter valued at $51,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 71.55% of the company’s stock.
Wall Street Analyst Weigh In Several research firms have recently commented on JPM. Robert W. Baird boosted their target price on shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. from $295.00 to $305.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research report on Wednesday, July 15th. Barclays boosted their price objective on JPMorgan Chase & Co. from $391.00 to $420.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Wednesday, July 15th. Morgan Stanley reissued a “positive” rating and issued a $370.00 price objective on shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. in a research note on Wednesday, July 15th. Evercore restated an “outperform” rating and issued a $360.00 target price on shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. in a report on Monday, July 6th. Finally, Citigroup increased their price target on JPMorgan Chase & Co. from $325.00 to $360.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research report on Monday, July 20th. Sixteen equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and twelve have given a Hold rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $363.29.
Check Out Our Latest Report on JPMorgan Chase & Co. Insiders Place Their Bets In other JPMorgan Chase & Co. news, insider Robin Leopold sold 2,500 shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co. stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, September 10th. The shares were sold at an average price of $352.81, for a total transaction of $882,025.00. Following the completion of the sale, the insider directly owned 71,047 shares in the company, valued at $25,066,092.07. The trade was a 3.40% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. 0.41% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.
Key Headlines Impacting JPMorgan Chase & Co. Here are the key news stories impacting JPMorgan Chase & Co. this week:
Positive Sentiment: JPMorgan’s strong earnings-surprise history and favorable Zacks indicators suggest the bank may again exceed estimates in its upcoming quarterly report. Will JPMorgan Chase & Co. Beat Estimates Again? Positive Sentiment: Analysts collectively maintain a “Moderate Buy” recommendation, supporting the view that JPM’s valuation remains attractive despite recent weakness. JPMorgan Receives Moderate Buy Consensus Positive Sentiment: J.P. Morgan Payments partnered with Al Salam Bank on an overnight Murabaha liquidity solution, expanding its payments and Islamic-finance capabilities in Bahrain. Al Salam Bank and J.P. Morgan Payments Feature Liquidity Solution Positive Sentiment: The Federal Reserve’s revamped stress-testing framework could reduce volatility in banks’ capital requirements and improve planning visibility for JPMorgan. Fed Revamps Bank Stress Tests Positive Sentiment: JPMorgan remains highlighted as an income-oriented stock with an upcoming dividend ex-date, which may support demand from dividend investors. High-Yield Dividends With Ex-Dates Days Away Neutral Sentiment: JPMorgan’s bond-market activity shows continued access to wholesale funding, but investors are assessing whether the additional borrowing improves growth or pressures the capital structure. JPMorgan Taps Bond Markets Neutral Sentiment: The elevation of Doug Petno and Troy Rohrbaugh to co-presidents advances succession planning, but also increases investor focus on the eventual replacement for CEO Jamie Dimon. JPMorgan Elevates Co-Presidents Negative Sentiment: JPMorgan’s credit-loss reserve grew even though provisions declined year over year during the first half of 2026. The unusual combination may signal conservatism, but it also raises questions about management’s expectations for future loan losses ahead of third-quarter results. JPMorgan Reserves for Losses That Have Not Arrived Negative Sentiment: Broad selling across money-center banks has weighed on JPMorgan and the wider financial sector, reflecting reduced investor risk appetite rather than a company-specific catalyst. Bank Stocks Slide JPMorgan Chase & Co. Price Performance Shares of NYSE JPM opened at $332.18 on Friday. The company has a current ratio of 0.85, a quick ratio of 0.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.30. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $352.44 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $327.11. JPMorgan Chase & Co. has a 1-year low of $279.10 and a 1-year high of $366.50. The firm has a market cap of $882.99 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 14.23, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.39 and a beta of 1.02.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM – Get Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, July 14th. The financial services provider reported $6.14 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $5.59 by $0.55. JPMorgan Chase & Co. had a net margin of 21.86% and a return on equity of 18.23%. The company had revenue of $58.02 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $50.72 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $4.96 earnings per share. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 27.7% compared to the same quarter last year. Analysts anticipate that JPMorgan Chase & Co. will post 24.11 earnings per share for the current year.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Increases Dividend The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Saturday, October 31st. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, October 6th will be issued a dividend of $1.65 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, October 6th. This is a positive change from JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s previous quarterly dividend of $1.50. This represents a $6.60 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.0%. JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s payout ratio is presently 25.71%.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co is a global financial services company headquartered in New York City. Through its businesses, the company provides banking, investment banking, asset management, private banking, commercial banking, consumer lending and payment services to individuals, businesses, institutions and governments.
The company operates through major business areas that include Consumer & Community Banking, Commercial & Investment Banking, and Asset & Wealth Management. Its products and services include deposit accounts, credit cards, mortgages, auto loans, business financing, investment and advisory services, securities trading and custody, payment processing, and wealth-management solutions.
JPMorgan Chase serves customers in the United States and maintains operations and client relationships across international markets.
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Intel získal od vlády USA, Nvidie a SoftBank novou podporu, která posílila jeho bilanci. Klíčové ale zůstává, zda přitáhne zákazníka pro 14A výrobu čipů.
Intel (INTC -0.56%) has spent the past year or so collecting an unusual group of financial backers. The U.S. government took a 10% equity stake. Nvidia (NVDA +1.34%) put in $5 billion. SoftBank (SFTBY -0.87%) added $2 billion on top of that.
Most turnaround stories involve a company convincing skeptical investors to buy in. Intel convinced the government, one of its biggest AI rivals, and a Japanese conglomerate to underwrite its future before ordinary shareholders decided whether the comeback was real.
That's the piece of the Intel story that gets buried under quarterly revenue numbers, and it matters more than most headlines suggest for anyone trying to picture Intel five years from now.
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Intel's shareholder list looks nothing like a typical chipmaker's When the U.S. government converted roughly $8.9 billion in CHIPS Act and Defense Department grants into 433 million Intel shares, it became the company's largest single shareholder, according to CNBC. The government said it won't seek a board seat and will generally vote alongside Intel's existing board. Still, it's an unusual arrangement: Washington now has a direct financial stake in whether Intel's factories succeed, on top of its existing interest in not depending on Taiwan for advanced chips.
Nvidia's $5 billion came with something more concrete: a plan for the two companies to jointly design custom processors, pairing Intel's CPU know-how with Nvidia's graphics and AI chip technology. SoftBank's $2 billion came with no such product commitment, more a bet that Intel's revival is worth backing early.
None of this is charity. Each of these big three investors has its own reason to want Intel standing five years from now, whether that's national security, a manufacturing hedge, or a return on capital. But it does mean Intel's near-term survival looks less in doubt than it did two years ago. Just look at the stock, which has traded up over 200% in the last year. There are some hefty investors who believe the company is only going up from here.
The comeback still hinges on customers Intel doesn't have yet Strip away the investor headlines, and Intel's fate comes down to its contract manufacturing business, called Intel Foundry, which makes chips for other companies the way Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing does. Last year, Intel warned that it may exit the chip manufacturing business if it cannot attract external customers to its factories, as CEO Lip-Bu Tan worked to boost its foundry business amid layoffs, per Reuters. That being said, Foundry revenue grew 31% last quarter, and Tan has said the company's newest manufacturing process, called 18A, is now producing chips in higher volumes with improving yields. Essentially, this means there are more usable chips per batch, which is the metric that decides whether a factory actually makes money.
The bigger test is the process after that, called 14A. Speaking at a Deutsche Bank investor conference in late August, Intel Chief Financial Officer Dave Zinsner said customer conversations had shifted from evaluating the technology to discussing how much production capacity those customers could get, and that he'd reached "conviction" about landing external 14A customers. That's a notably more confident tone than earlier in the year, but it's still just talk: Intel hasn't named a committed outside customer for 14A, and the company has said it won't build capacity for one until it signs on.
Intel's own timeline calls for customers to start making firm 14A supplier decisions in the back half of 2026, which is right now, and, according to MarketBeat, the roughly $23 billion Intel raised this summer, aimed partly at 14A infrastructure and equipment orders, suggests management is betting that happens. But even a named customer might not move the stock much at this point, since shares already trade near 60 times next year's expected earnings, a multiple that arguably prices in foundry wins Intel hasn't announced yet.
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Five-year outlook: Intel is a cautionary bet I'd treat Intel as a binary, cautionary bet and as two separate questions resolving on different timelines. The balance sheet risk looks smaller now, given the new capital. Whether Intel will become a real alternative to TSMC for cutting-edge chips remains unresolved, and a firm 14A customer announcement is the clearest signal to watch for over the next year. Anyone considering Intel today should size the position for that uncertainty rather than assume the hardest part is already behind it.
Marvell Technology ve fiskálním roce 2026 zvýšila tržby o 42,1 % na téměř 8,2 miliardy USD a 74 % z nich pocházelo z datových center. Firma zároveň čeká zrychlení růstu tržeb ve zbytku fiskálního roku 2027.
Intel (INTC -0.56%) and Marvell Technology (MRVL +1.57%) both sell chips for data centers, and both companies say demand tied to artificial intelligence (AI) is lifting that business. Beyond that, they have little in common.
Intel designs and manufactures processors for PCs and servers, and it is trying to turn its factories into a foundry business that makes chips for other companies. Marvell is a smaller company that outsources manufacturing and sells chips for data center and networking equipment. For anyone investing in AI stocks, the choice comes down to a capital-heavy turnaround or a faster-growing specialist that leans on a short list of customers.
The case for IntelIntel designs and manufactures x86 processors for PCs and data centers. It is also trying to expand Intel Foundry into a manufacturer for outside chip designers, though the company's 2025 annual report says nearly all of that business still supports Intel's own products. In August 2025, the U.S. government agreed to invest $8.9 billion in Intel common stock, funded by CHIPS Act grants that had been awarded but not yet paid and by its Secure Enclave program award.
In the fiscal year ended Dec. 27, 2025, revenue was nearly $52.9 billion, down roughly 0.5% from the prior year. Intel's net loss attributable to shareholders was about $267 million, compared with a loss of about $18.8 billion in fiscal 2024.
Operating expenses fell to roughly $20.6 billion from $29.0 billion as restructuring charges shrank and research and development spending fell, yet Intel still posted an operating loss of about $2.2 billion for the year. Below the operating line, the 2025 result included a gain of about $5.6 billion from the sale of a 51% stake in Altera.
As of its Dec. 27, 2025, balance sheet, the debt-to-equity ratio was roughly 0.4x, measured as total debt against total stockholders' equity. The current ratio, which compares short-term assets to short-term liabilities, was close to 2.0x.
Free cash flow was about negative $4.9 billion, measured as operating cash flow of $9.7 billion minus $14.6 billion of additions to property, plant, and equipment. Intel's own adjusted free cash flow measure, which counts government incentives and partner contributions against capital spending, was negative $1.6 billion.
Stock-based compensation accounted for roughly 25.1% of operating cash flow, and because it is a non-cash expense added back to the cash flow statement, it lifts reported cash generation.
The case for Marvell TechnologyMarvell Technology designs chips for data infrastructure and networking, a segment of the semiconductor market closely tied to data center spending. Its products include custom chips and interconnects for cloud and AI systems, and it outsources manufacturing. On March 31, 2026, Marvell and Nvidia (NVDA +1.34%) announced a strategic partnership, and Nvidia invested $2 billion in Marvell convertible preferred stock. Marvell also sold its automotive Ethernet business to Infineon Technologies (IFNNF +2.00%) for $2.5 billion in cash in August 2025.
In fiscal 2026, which ended Jan. 31, 2026, revenue reached nearly $8.2 billion, up about 42.1% year over year. Data center products accounted for 74% of that total. Net income was close to $2.7 billion, a net margin of roughly 32.6%, but that figure includes a pre-tax gain of about $1.8 billion on the sale to Infineon.
Operating income, which excludes the gain, was about $1.3 billion, or roughly 16% of revenue. Marvell reported net losses in each of the prior two fiscal years.
On its Jan. 31, 2026, balance sheet, the debt-to-equity ratio was roughly 0.3x on a total debt basis. The current ratio was close to 2.0x, meaning current assets were about twice current liabilities.
Free cash flow was about $1.4 billion, measured the same way as Intel's, which is operating cash flow minus purchases of property and equipment. Stock-based compensation equaled roughly 33.8% of operating cash flow, a larger share than at Intel.
Risk profile comparisonIntel cites intense competition, rapid technological change, and an evolving market for AI products as risks. It also faces litigation over the government investment.
A stockholder filed a derivative lawsuit in March 2026, asking a court to invalidate the agreement and seeking damages on Intel's behalf, according to Intel's quarterly report for the period ended June 27, 2026, and the defendants moved to dismiss in May 2026.
Intel makes its products predominantly in its own factories but also uses outside foundries, including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM +2.96%), for some products or parts of them. China accounted for about 24% of 2025 revenue, which leaves sales exposed to trade tensions and export controls.
Marvell depends on a short list of buyers. Its 10 largest customers, including distributors, accounted for 82% of fiscal 2026 net revenue.
In August 2026, it issued Google, a unit of Alphabet (GOOGL +1.55%) (GOOG +1.62%), a warrant to purchase up to about 59 million Marvell shares at $206.58 each, with vesting tied mostly to revenue milestones for custom chips, which could dilute existing shareholders.
Marvell completed the acquisitions of Celestial AI and XConn Technologies in February 2026 and lists integration as one of its risks, along with tariffs and trade restrictions involving China.
Valuation comparisonBoth stocks trade at steep forward price-to-earnings (P/E) ratios based on earnings estimates, and Marvell is the more expensive of the two on price-to-sales (P/S), a measure that uses sales over the past 12 months.
MetricIntelMarvell TechnologyForward P/E63.3x60.9xP/S ratio10.8x23.7xValuation metrics include sourcing from Financial Modeling Prep (FMP) and may differ from other data providers.
Marvell Technology looks like the better buy to me, though both stocks more than tripled in 2026 through September, so either one is best held as a small part of a diversified portfolio for five years or more.
Intel's turnaround is showing up in its results. In the quarter that ended in June, revenue rose 25% from a year earlier, and the company swung to an operating profit. Its large net loss that quarter resulted from a non-cash charge related to shares held in escrow for the government.
The foundry segment is still losing money, however, and funding it has meant issuing a lot of new stock. Intel sold about $23 billion of new shares in August 2026, roughly a year after the U.S. government took its stake.
Marvell avoids that burden by leaving manufacturing to others. Its latest quarter, which ended Aug. 1, set a revenue record, with data center products accounting for nearly 80% of sales.
Management said it expects revenue growth to accelerate through the rest of fiscal 2027, which ends in January 2027. Concentration is the trade-off, and the warrant issued to Alphabet's Google shows that large customers can command a share of the upside.
With both stocks trading at rich earnings multiples, I'd rather own the faster grower that doesn't have to build its own factories. Intel deserves credit for its progress, and if outside customers fill its foundry, patient shareholders could still be rewarded.
IBM před otevřením trhu vyskočil z 219,93 USD na 230,76 USD. Firma zároveň oznámila čtvrtletní zisk na akcii ve výši 2,93 USD při tržbách 17,16 miliardy USD.
International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM – Get Free Report) shares gapped up prior to trading on Thursday. The stock had previously closed at $219.93, but opened at $230.76. International Business Machines shares last traded at $230.7220, with a volume of 2,333,473 shares trading hands.
International Business Machines News Summary Here are the key news stories impacting International Business Machines this week:
Positive Sentiment: Accenture’s strong results improved confidence in IBM’s consulting business. Record bookings and resilient consulting demand at Accenture helped ease fears that generative AI will reduce technology-services spending, lifting sentiment across the sector and benefiting IBM. Strength in Accenture’s Consulting Business Gives IBM Stock a Much-Needed Boost Positive Sentiment: Self-hosted IBM Bob expands the company’s AI opportunity. IBM now allows customers to run its agentic software-development platform on-premises, in private or sovereign clouds, and in air-gapped environments. The offering targets regulated enterprises that need tighter control over sensitive code, data, and workflows, reinforcing IBM’s hybrid-cloud and AI-sovereignty strategy. IBM Introduces Self-Hosted Deployment for IBM Bob Positive Sentiment: IBM elected private-equity executive Frank Baker to its board. The appointment could add investment and corporate-governance expertise as IBM seeks to commercialize AI and digital-infrastructure products. IBM Elects Frank Baker to its Board of Directors Neutral Sentiment: IBM is positioned in growing technology markets. Articles highlight IBM’s quantum-computing initiatives and exposure to expanding secure-file-transfer and smart-manufacturing markets, although the near-term revenue impact is uncertain. Quantum Computing Is Having a Moment Negative Sentiment: Weak IBM Z performance remains the central risk. A sharp reaction to disappointing second-quarter results triggered a major market-value loss and renewed questions about IBM’s growth outlook. A shareholder-rights law firm is investigating whether prior disclosures violated securities laws, adding headline and litigation risk. IBM Z Shortfall Triggers Investigation Negative Sentiment: Investors remain focused on the next earnings report. Analysts expect third-quarter bottom-line growth, but the company must demonstrate that the Z weakness is contained and that AI and consulting momentum can translate into durable revenue and cash-flow growth. What You Need to Know Ahead of IBM’s Earnings Release Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth A number of analysts have recently weighed in on IBM shares. Wolfe Research cut shares of International Business Machines to a “peer perform” rating in a report on Tuesday, June 23rd. Oppenheimer lowered shares of International Business Machines from an “outperform” rating to a “market perform” rating in a research note on Wednesday, July 15th. Daiwa Securities Group decreased their target price on shares of International Business Machines from $247.00 to $217.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, July 29th. Argus lowered their target price on shares of International Business Machines from $360.00 to $280.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, July 16th. Finally, Robert W. Baird started coverage on shares of International Business Machines in a report on Tuesday, July 21st. They issued a “neutral” rating and a $230.00 price target on the stock. Eighteen research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, twelve have given a Hold rating and two have given a Sell rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, International Business Machines has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $253.52.
Read Our Latest Report on International Business Machines International Business Machines Trading Down 1.4% The stock has a 50-day simple moving average of $232.27 and a 200 day simple moving average of $244.92. The company has a current ratio of 0.79, a quick ratio of 0.74 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.63. The company has a market cap of $209.67 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 19.75, a PEG ratio of 2.15 and a beta of 0.73.
International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM – Get Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, July 22nd. The technology company reported $2.93 earnings per share for the quarter, meeting analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.93. International Business Machines had a return on equity of 35.65% and a net margin of 15.52%.The business had revenue of $17.16 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $17.46 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $2.80 earnings per share. The company’s revenue was up 1.1% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, equities research analysts predict that International Business Machines Corporation will post 12.33 EPS for the current fiscal year.
International Business Machines Announces Dividend The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, September 10th. Investors of record on Monday, August 10th were issued a $1.69 dividend. This represents a $6.76 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.0%. The ex-dividend date was Monday, August 10th. International Business Machines’s dividend payout ratio is 59.98%.
Insider Transactions at International Business Machines In other International Business Machines news, SVP Robert Thomas sold 25,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, August 26th. The shares were sold at an average price of $230.32, for a total transaction of $5,758,000.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the senior vice president directly owned 47,800 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $11,009,296. This trade represents a 34.34% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. Corporate insiders own 0.27% of the company’s stock.
Institutional Trading of International Business Machines Large investors have recently made changes to their positions in the business. Assetmark Inc. grew its position in International Business Machines by 24.8% during the first quarter. Assetmark Inc. now owns 64,458 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $15,624,000 after buying an additional 12,791 shares during the period. Flputnam Investment Management Co. acquired a new position in shares of International Business Machines in the second quarter worth about $15,237,000. Beacon Investment Advisory Services Inc. raised its position in shares of International Business Machines by 939.4% in the second quarter. Beacon Investment Advisory Services Inc. now owns 30,495 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $8,575,000 after acquiring an additional 27,561 shares during the period. St. Louis Financial Planners Asset Management LLC boosted its stake in shares of International Business Machines by 34.6% during the 2nd quarter. St. Louis Financial Planners Asset Management LLC now owns 14,234 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $4,121,000 after acquiring an additional 3,659 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Evercore Wealth Management LLC boosted its stake in shares of International Business Machines by 9.0% during the 1st quarter. Evercore Wealth Management LLC now owns 62,801 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $15,222,000 after acquiring an additional 5,196 shares in the last quarter. 58.96% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
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International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM), commonly known as IBM, is a global technology company that provides hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence, software, consulting and infrastructure solutions. Its offerings help businesses and government organizations manage data, modernize applications, automate processes and improve cybersecurity.
IBM’s portfolio includes the Red Hat hybrid cloud platform, the watsonx suite of artificial intelligence and data tools, consulting services, and enterprise software for areas such as automation, application management, security and asset management.
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UnitedHealth oznámí výsledky za 3. čtvrtletí a investoři budou sledovat hlavně medical care ratio. Ve 2. čtvrtletí klesl na 86,7 % z 89,4 % před rokem.
UnitedHealth Group (UNH +1.83%) will report its third-quarter financial results on Tuesday, Oct. 13, before the stock market opens.
As usual, investors will closely monitor the company's revenue and earnings per share and how those have changed from the same period a year ago. They'll also compare those figures to Wall Street's expectations for the quarter to see whether the giant insurer outperformed analysts' forecasts.
But there's another critical number for UnitedHealth that I'll be looking at even more closely: the medical care ratio, which is the percentage of insurance premiums it took in that were paid out to settle claims. It is a key metric to assess a health insurer's profitability.
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The federal government requires health insurers that sell large plans, as UnitedHealth does, to spend at least 85% of the premium dollars they receive on medical care and healthcare quality improvement. If they spend too much, though, it can affect the bottom line. Insurers need to meet that requirement as closely as possible to ensure profitability.
In the second quarter, UnitedHealth's medical care ratio fell to 86.7% from 89.4% a year earlier (the ratio surged to 89.9% in the third quarter of 2025). The company says the recent decrease was driven by benefit design and pricing discipline, as well as adjustments to its member mix. UnitedHealth management has been working hard to bring that critical ratio figure down, and it's been working.
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Medtronic zvýšil dividendu už 49. rok v řadě, ale nyní hlavní roli přebírá růst: výnosy v 1. čtvrtletí fiskálního roku 2027 stouply o 13,7 % na 9,76 miliardy USD. Tahounem byl kardiální ablační byznys, který vzrostl o 88 % celosvětově.
Medtronic has raised its dividend for 49 straight years while the stock quietly lost a fifth of its value, but something in the operating room just changed the entire conversation about why investors should own it.
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Shares of Medtronic (NYSE:MDT | MDT Price Prediction) trade at $86.75. They are down 7.4% this year and 20.06% over five years, and the dividend kept going up the whole time. Now the business is growing faster than it has in years. That makes it fair to ask whether the payout is still the main reason to own the stock.
Repeat Procedure Revenue Pays for the Dividend Medtronic makes the equipment doctors use in the operating room and the cath lab: pacemakers, heart ablation catheters, spine and brain surgery tools, surgical robots and insulin pumps. A lot of that revenue comes back every year. Each ablation procedure uses a new catheter, and each mapping system a hospital sets up leads to more catheter orders. On the latest earnings call, management said the growing sets up base should drive future sales of higher-margin catheters.
That repeat business has funded a 49th consecutive year of dividend increases. The quarterly payout has grown from $0.04 in 2000 to $0.72, or $2.88 a year, for a yield of about 3.27%. Coverage is solid. Fiscal 2026 dividends of $3.639 billion used about 67% of $5.43 billion in free cash flow. The forward payout is about 48% of the $5.972 consensus EPS for fiscal 2027. The weak spot is how fast it grows: the latest raise from $0.71 works out to about 1.4%.
A 49-year streak puts Medtronic one raise away from Dividend King status, the 50-plus-year club we rated by valuation in a free report here: 10 Dividend Kings to Buy Now and Hold Forever.
Growth Now Comes From the Heart Business Revenue for the first quarter of fiscal 2027 came in at $9.76 billion, up 13.7%. Non-GAAP EPS of $1.45 beat the $1.39 estimate. An extra fiscal week added about $570 million, or 670 basis points, to that growth. Even without it, ablation stood out. Cardiac Ablation Solutions grew 88% worldwide and 139% in the U.S., and the Sphere-9 catheter picked up nine points of U.S. share.
“Our execution, alongside our innovation engine, positions us to serve more patients and deliver durable growth,” CEO Geoff Martha said.
Other areas lag. Neuromodulation grew just 3%, and management guided second-quarter organic growth to roughly 6%.
How Abbott and Boston Scientific Frame the Choice Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT) has the longer record, with a 54th consecutive year of increases and a $0.63 quarterly payout. Its second-quarter revenue rose 13.0%, but only 4.8% on a comparable basis once Exact Sciences is included.
Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX) pays no dividend and wants investors to pay up for FARAPULSE growth. Its 2026 organic outlook fell from 10.0% to 11.0% to 5% to 6%. A widely upvoted Reddit post summed it up:
“Boston Scientific peaked at $105 last November. It closed yesterday at $43.55.”
Valuation Gives Medtronic Little Credit for Growth Medtronic trades at 15 times forward earnings and 21 times trailing earnings. Analysts rate it 3 Strong Buy, 16 Buy and 9 Hold. Their $104.83 average target means about 20.8% upside.
Verdict: The Dividend Is the Floor, Ablation Is the Reason The dividend now plays a supporting role. It puts a floor under the stock, while ablation, renal denervation and the Diabetes spinoff provide the upside. Management expects the spinoff to lift operating margin by about 100 basis points. The biggest risk is ablation growth slowing toward the mid-teens market rate as year-over-year comparisons get harder. If that happens, Medtronic goes back to being a slow-growth income stock. The investor day on December 10th and 11th is the next checkpoint.
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Halliburton Company (NYSE:HAL – Get Free Report) was the recipient of unusually large options trading on Thursday. Stock traders bought 24,341 call options on the company. This is an increase of 52% compared to the typical daily volume of 16,048 call options.
Insider Buying and Selling at Halliburton In other news, COO Jeffrey Slocum sold 52,572 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, August 19th. The stock was sold at an average price of $35.09, for a total transaction of $1,844,751.48. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief operating officer directly owned 118,730 shares in the company, valued at $4,166,235.70. This trade represents a 30.69% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. 0.57% of the stock is owned by insiders.
Institutional Inflows and Outflows Hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Meeder Asset Management Inc. bought a new stake in shares of Halliburton in the second quarter worth about $26,000. Kilter Group LLC bought a new position in Halliburton during the second quarter valued at approximately $26,000. Silvant Capital Management LLC purchased a new position in Halliburton during the 2nd quarter valued at approximately $28,000. Matrix Trust Co bought a new stake in Halliburton in the 2nd quarter worth approximately $29,000. Finally, Hoey Investments Inc. purchased a new stake in shares of Halliburton during the 1st quarter worth approximately $39,000. 85.23% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.
Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth A number of research firms have weighed in on HAL. Morgan Stanley reduced their price objective on shares of Halliburton from $41.00 to $40.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research note on Wednesday, July 22nd. Piper Sandler upgraded shares of Halliburton from a “neutral” rating to an “overweight” rating and upped their target price for the stock from $40.00 to $43.00 in a research note on Tuesday, July 14th. Wall Street Zen cut shares of Halliburton from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Saturday. Wolfe Research began coverage on shares of Halliburton in a report on Wednesday, July 8th. They issued a “peer perform” rating for the company. Finally, BMO Capital Markets set a $37.00 price objective on Halliburton in a research report on Wednesday, July 22nd. Eighteen investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, six have given a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, Halliburton presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $43.24. Get Our Latest Research Report on Halliburton
Halliburton Stock Down 0.2% Shares of Halliburton stock opened at $31.83 on Friday. Halliburton has a twelve month low of $21.46 and a twelve month high of $43.59. The company has a quick ratio of 1.50, a current ratio of 2.02 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.64. The company’s 50 day moving average is $34.06 and its 200 day moving average is $36.50. The company has a market cap of $26.52 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 16.66, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.84 and a beta of 0.83.
Halliburton (NYSE:HAL – Get Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, July 21st. The oilfield services company reported $0.55 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.54 by $0.01. Halliburton had a return on equity of 18.71% and a net margin of 7.16%.The firm had revenue of $5.71 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $5.50 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $0.55 EPS. The company’s revenue was up 3.7% compared to the same quarter last year. Research analysts anticipate that Halliburton will post 2.34 EPS for the current year.
Halliburton Announces Dividend The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, September 23rd. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, September 2nd were given a $0.17 dividend. The ex-dividend date was Wednesday, September 2nd. This represents a $0.68 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.1%. Halliburton’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 35.60%.
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Halliburton Company (NYSE: HAL) is a global provider of products and services for the energy industry. The company supports the exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas through technologies and services used throughout the life cycle of a well.
Halliburton operates through two primary business segments: Completion and Production, and Drilling and Evaluation. Its offerings include cementing, stimulation, well completion, production enhancement, drilling services, drilling fluids, well testing, wireline and perforating services, formation evaluation, and project management.
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EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE:EPAM – Get Free Report)’s stock price gapped up prior to trading on Thursday. The stock had previously closed at $108.36, but opened at $117.41. EPAM Systems shares last traded at $117.8730, with a volume of 191,223 shares trading hands.
Wall Street Analyst Weigh In A number of research firms have weighed in on EPAM. Guggenheim cut their target price on shares of EPAM Systems from $165.00 to $140.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Monday, August 10th. TD Cowen cut their price objective on EPAM Systems from $131.00 to $120.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, August 7th. Truist Financial lowered their target price on EPAM Systems from $112.00 to $110.00 and set a “hold” rating on the stock in a report on Friday, August 7th. Morgan Stanley set a $97.00 price target on EPAM Systems in a research report on Friday, August 7th. Finally, Weiss Ratings reaffirmed a “sell (d+)” rating on shares of EPAM Systems in a research report on Tuesday, August 4th. Six investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, ten have given a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $116.47.
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EPAM Systems Stock Down 5.5% The stock has a market capitalization of $5.58 billion, a P/E ratio of 14.65, a PEG ratio of 1.19 and a beta of 1.39. The company has a quick ratio of 2.75, a current ratio of 2.75 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.01. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of $109.53 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $107.13. EPAM Systems (NYSE:EPAM – Get Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, August 6th. The information technology services provider reported $3.38 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $3.16 by $0.22. The firm had revenue of $1.41 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.41 billion. EPAM Systems had a net margin of 7.15% and a return on equity of 15.84%. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 4.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm posted $2.77 EPS. EPAM Systems has set its FY 2026 guidance at 13.080-13.240 EPS and its Q3 2026 guidance at 3.380-3.460 EPS. Equities research analysts forecast that EPAM Systems, Inc. will post 10.47 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
Institutional Trading of EPAM Systems Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the business. Versant Capital Management Inc increased its stake in shares of EPAM Systems by 138.5% in the 3rd quarter. Versant Capital Management Inc now owns 3,396 shares of the information technology services provider’s stock valued at $368,000 after buying an additional 1,972 shares during the period. Sequoia Financial Advisors LLC acquired a new position in shares of EPAM Systems during the second quarter valued at $371,000. Tidal Investments LLC lifted its stake in shares of EPAM Systems by 23.0% during the second quarter. Tidal Investments LLC now owns 79,826 shares of the information technology services provider’s stock valued at $6,334,000 after acquiring an additional 14,917 shares during the period. WINTON GROUP Ltd boosted its holdings in EPAM Systems by 31.0% in the second quarter. WINTON GROUP Ltd now owns 131,440 shares of the information technology services provider’s stock valued at $10,430,000 after acquiring an additional 31,134 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Engineers Gate Manager LP boosted its holdings in EPAM Systems by 341.1% in the second quarter. Engineers Gate Manager LP now owns 52,893 shares of the information technology services provider’s stock valued at $4,197,000 after acquiring an additional 40,902 shares during the last quarter. 91.58% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
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EPAM Systems, Inc (NYSE: EPAM) is a global digital engineering and technology services company that helps businesses design, build and modernize software and digital platforms. Its services include software development, product and platform engineering, cloud services, data and analytics, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and technology consulting.
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Best Buy i Dick’s zvýšily dividendu, ale jen Best Buy ji pokrývá volným peněžním tokem s velkou rezervou. Dick’s má slabší krytí a jeho volný peněžní tok letos nestačil na výplatu dividend.
Both Dick's Sporting Goods and Best Buy just raised their dividends, but free cash flow tells a very different story about which payout a retirement portfolio can actually count on.
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Which retail dividend holds up better for a retirement-focused investor: Dick’s Sporting Goods (NYSE:DKS | DKS Price Prediction) or Best Buy (NYSE:BBY)? Best Buy has the stronger income profile, and the cash flow statements show why. Both raise their dividends, and both depend on discretionary spending in physical stores. Right now, only one of them pays its dividend easily out of free cash flow.
Dividend Income: Best Buy Pays More and Covers It Better At $88.84, Best Buy’s $3.84 annualized dividend yields about 4.3%. Dick’s $5.00 annualized payout yields about 3.7% at $136.43.
Best Buy’s coverage is stronger. Best Buy produced $1.26B of free cash flow in its fiscal year ended January 2026, compared with $801M in dividends. That is roughly 157% coverage. Over the first half of fiscal 2027, operating cash flow minus capex came to about $952M, against $405M paid out.
The buffer at Dick’s is much thinner. Free cash flow of about $482M in the fiscal year ended January 2026 covered $414M of dividends by roughly 116%. Through the first half of 2026, free cash flow was about $49M against $225M in dividends. Management also guides full-year net capex to roughly $1.4 billion. The balance sheet can cover the shortfall for now, with $914 million in cash and no borrowings on a $2 billion credit facility.
Dick’s does have the stronger record of growing its payout. Its quarterly dividend rose from $0.3125 in 2020 to $1.25 today, and it paid a $5.9375 special distribution in September 2021. Best Buy’s latest raise was just 1%. Even so, a retiree is better served by a well-covered dividend that grows slowly than by fast raises that cash flow is not currently funding (the kind of coverage gap we highlighted among the seven warning signs in our free dividend traps guide).
Business Durability: Best Buy’s Momentum Beats Dick’s Foot Locker Drag Best Buy has now beaten EPS estimates five quarters in a row. In the latest quarter, adjusted EPS was $1.47 against a $1.36 estimate, and comparable sales rose 4.1%. The company raised fiscal 2027 adjusted EPS guidance to $6.70 to $6.90. Ads and the online marketplace are adding higher-margin profit, with marketplace sales volume expectations raised to $1.3 billion. Electronics still face price swings and replacement cycles. Computing average selling prices rose by the mid-teens while unit sales fell by a high single-digit percentage, and management expects computing growth to slow. Jason Bonfig takes over as CEO on Nov. 1.
The core Dick’s chain is healthy, with comparable sales up 4.9%. Foot Locker is dragging results. That section posted a $31.9M operating loss, and Dick’s cut full-year EPS guidance to $11.00 to $12.00 from $13.50 to $14.50. Management said, “We’re going to experience some pain at least through the end of this year.”
Valuation: Dick’s Is the Cheaper Stock Dick’s trades at about 12x the midpoint of its guidance, compared with roughly 13x for Best Buy. Measured against those same midpoints, its dividend uses only about 43% of earnings, versus 56% at Best Buy. Dick’s shares are down 29.59% year to date, while Best Buy is up 37.92%. Analysts’ average target for Dick’s is $158.27. Best Buy’s average target of $86.95 sits below its current price. Dick’s clearly wins on valuation.
Verdict: Best Buy Earns the Retirement Income Slot For an investor who lives on dividend checks, Best Buy has the stronger profile. It offers the higher yield, free cash flow that covers the payout with room to spare, and guidance that is rising. Dick’s fits a longer total-return horizon that can handle the Foot Locker turnaround in exchange for the lower valuation.
What would flip the outcome: Foot Locker returning to a section profit while Dick’s capex comes down far enough that operating cash flow covers the dividend again. On Best Buy’s side, comparable sales turning negative as the computing cycle passes, or a new CEO scaling back shareholder returns, would restart the debate.
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Robinhood ve 2. čtvrtletí získal z predikčních trhů 156 milionů USD, tedy meziročně více než desetinásobek. Vlad Tenev říká, že krypto kontrakty už tvoří neúměrně velkou část tohoto segmentu.
If Vlad Tenev, the chief executive officer of Robinhood Markets (HOOD +1.43%), is right that sports bets will become a minority of prediction market contracts within a few years, crypto investors might not see much upside directly. In the second quarter, the company brought in $156 million from its prediction market activities, up more than 10-fold year over year. In August 2026, per Robinhood's operating data, event contracts traded ran 15 times ahead of the levels of a year ago. And on Sept. 21, Tenev told CNBC that crypto-related contracts are already becoming a disproportionately large share of that segment, with sports-related contracts on track to become the minority within the next few years.
So what does this mean for crypto investors?
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Robinhood isn't the only platform seeing this trend Kalshi, a prediction market provider and one of the exchanges behind Robinhood's contracts, saw crypto prediction market volume increase from $337 million in January 2026 to about $7.5 billion by August. In the week ended Sept. 20, sports contracts still made up 21% of Kalshi's trading volume. And in that period, Bitcoin contracts were responsible for 13%, while bets bundling several different outcomes accounted for 62%.
Kalshi's crypto contracts, like Robinhood's, pose very short-term questions to traders, like whether Bitcoin will finish above a target price at the end of a 15-minute window.
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The idea is that traders can buy contracts for as little as a penny each, which pay $1 if right, and, given the quick turnover of new and timely contracts, potentially bet many times per day. Investors should note that it is generally a fool's errand to predict the short-term price movements of cryptocurrencies, just like it is with stocks. Of course, the prediction market operators make money from fees whether the underlying coin goes up or down, so it's in their interest to encourage as much trading as possible.
As for the prices of the cryptocurrencies that are the subject of the predictions, there isn't much reason to believe that they're directly affected by the odds implied by the contracts, nor by the outcomes of those contracts. The coins themselves don't change hands as a result of anything happening in the prediction markets.
Should you bet on crypto prices instead of investing? There is no compelling reason to transition your crypto investing activities into crypto prediction market trading activities. There are, however, many compelling reasons not to do that.
In a February 2026 Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) column, a study of more than 300,000 Kalshi contracts found an average pre-fee loss of 20% per contract. The same investigation found that the probabilities implied by the contracts were too biased to be used as "true" probabilities. And if you're investing for the long term, as you should be, the resolution of any given 15-minute prediction about Bitcoin's price is not relevant to forming or adjusting an investment thesis for buying and holding it.
Nor does the Robinhood CEO's prediction about crypto outcome markets becoming bigger change any of that.
The crypto market itself is likely to grow considerably in coming years. That will doubtlessly create some of the anticipated growth in predictions about crypto prices. To get the most direct exposure to upside from the prediction component of that dynamic, specifically, buying Robinhood's stock is the most straightforward approach, as it earns revenue from every transaction. It's also a convenient play because of its brand-new Robinhood Chain blockchain, which will create even more fee revenue.
But for those who would prefer to only buy more crypto instead of stocks, there isn't necessarily much to do about or much to worry about regarding the expansion of crypto price prediction contracts. Own the coins that people are watching via prediction markets, and over the long run, their growth will continue to march onward regardless of what the bettors in the bleachers expect to occur in the next few minutes.
Sylvamo otevřela v předobchodní fázi níže po předchozím závěru na 34,02 USD; akcie začaly na 32,79 USD. Analytici mezitím snížili cílové ceny a průměrné doporučení je nyní „Hold“.
Sylvamo Corporation (NYSE:SLVM – Get Free Report)’s stock price gapped down before the market opened on Thursday. The stock had previously closed at $34.02, but opened at $32.79. Sylvamo shares last traded at $31.7760, with a volume of 20,153 shares changing hands.
Analysts Set New Price Targets A number of research firms have recently weighed in on SLVM. Royal Bank Of Canada dropped their price objective on Sylvamo from $49.00 to $46.00 and set a “sector perform” rating for the company in a research note on Friday, July 17th. Zacks Research downgraded Sylvamo from a “hold” rating to a “strong sell” rating in a research report on Tuesday, July 14th. Wells Fargo & Company assumed coverage on Sylvamo in a report on Wednesday, September 16th. They set an “overweight” rating and a $47.00 price target for the company. Truist Financial reaffirmed a “buy” rating and issued a $49.00 price objective (down from $51.00) on shares of Sylvamo in a research note on Monday, August 10th. Finally, Weiss Ratings reaffirmed a “sell (d+)” rating on shares of Sylvamo in a report on Friday, August 7th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, two have issued a Hold rating and two have issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $46.75.
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Sylvamo Price Performance The company has a current ratio of 1.47, a quick ratio of 0.80 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.88. The company has a market capitalization of $1.29 billion, a PE ratio of 17.26, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.19 and a beta of 0.87. The stock’s 50-day moving average is $36.63 and its two-hundred day moving average is $38.85. Sylvamo (NYSE:SLVM – Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Friday, August 7th. The company reported $0.03 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.02 by $0.01. The firm had revenue of $806.00 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $811.25 million. Sylvamo had a return on equity of 8.36% and a net margin of 2.31%.The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 1.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $0.37 earnings per share. On average, equities analysts predict that Sylvamo Corporation will post 1.53 EPS for the current year.
Sylvamo Announces Dividend The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, October 16th. Stockholders of record on Friday, October 2nd will be paid a dividend of $0.45 per share. This represents a $1.80 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 5.5%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, October 2nd. Sylvamo’s payout ratio is currently 95.74%.
Institutional Inflows and Outflows Institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP lifted its holdings in Sylvamo by 5.6% during the 1st quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 1,362,474 shares of the company’s stock valued at $57,547,000 after buying an additional 72,177 shares in the last quarter. State Street Corp grew its stake in Sylvamo by 5.2% in the 2nd quarter. State Street Corp now owns 1,389,749 shares of the company’s stock worth $52,533,000 after acquiring an additional 69,299 shares in the last quarter. Allianz Asset Management GmbH increased its position in shares of Sylvamo by 15.8% during the second quarter. Allianz Asset Management GmbH now owns 506,147 shares of the company’s stock worth $19,132,000 after acquiring an additional 69,195 shares during the period. Rokos Capital Management LLP purchased a new position in shares of Sylvamo during the first quarter worth approximately $10,802,000. Finally, SG Americas Securities LLC raised its stake in shares of Sylvamo by 8.3% during the first quarter. SG Americas Securities LLC now owns 242,221 shares of the company’s stock valued at $10,231,000 after acquiring an additional 18,653 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 91.16% of the company’s stock.
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Sylvamo Corporation (NYSE: SLVM) is a global producer of uncoated paper products. The company manufactures paper used for printing, writing, copying, office applications, and other commercial and industrial purposes. Its portfolio includes cut-size office paper, offset and publishing papers, and specialty paper products sold under brands such as Hammermill, Springhill, and Williamsburg.
Headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, Sylvamo serves customers through operations and sales networks in North America, Latin America, and Europe.
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Čtyři americké REITy s expozicí na datová centra vyplácejí dividendy a těží z boomu umělé inteligence. Nejvyšší dividendový výnos má American Tower kolem 4,44 %.
The AI data center buildout is minting fortunes for a handful of companies, but almost none of them pay a dividend. Four REITs sit right at the intersection of that infrastructure boom and steady income, and their payout safety tells…
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The AI data center boom has produced plenty of growth stories, but only a few of those companies pay a dividend. If you want income from this theme, you have to own the landlords and the infrastructure. Four US-listed REITs with real data center exposure pay dividends. Even the highest yield of the four, American Tower (NYSE:AMT), at about 4.44%, is well short of ultra-high-yield territory. What these names offer is coverage. Each one pays out a manageable share of its funds from operations, and AI leasing keeps driving those cash flows higher.
American Tower: Highest Yield on a Thin Data Center Bench American Tower is mostly a global cell tower landlord, but its CoreSite data center business is where the AI demand shows up. In the second quarter, Data Centers segment revenue rose 13.4% to $297M, and management now expects data center growth of about 15% for the full year. On the call, management said “nine of the top 10 AI companies and three of the top five NeoClouds are deployed within our facilities.”
Yield: The forward dividend of $7.16 per share on a price of $161.18 works out to roughly 4.44%.
Dividend safety: For a REIT, the right test is AFFO (adjusted funds from operations). 2026 AFFO per share guidance is $11.00 to $11.17, so the forward dividend uses about 64.59% of the midpoint. Free cash flow came in at $1.16B (+18.5%) for the quarter. Leverage ended at 4.9 times, inside the company’s 3 to 5 times target range. The quarterly payout has grown from $0.21 in 2012 to $1.79 today, and the latest step was a 5.3% year-over-year increase. The CFO, Rod Smith, ranked the payout first among uses of capital: “First and foremost, it’s supporting the dividend and a growing dividend.”
For the bull case, the stock is down 13.21% over the past year, which raises the yield for new buyers. Management also called this year “a trough for attributable AFFO per share growth” and expects growth to return to the mid to high single-digit range heading into 2027.
Risk: Towers still make up most of the business, and tower churn can drown out data center gains. DISH cancellations cost $63M in the quarter and driving U.S./Canada property revenue down 2.5%.
Iron Mountain: Dividend Raised Four Years Running With AFFO Room to Spare Iron Mountain (NYSE:IRM) started in records storage and now makes more and more from data centers and from asset lifecycle management (ALM), which means decommissioning and reselling old servers. Data center demand gets there it two ways: leasing and hardware refresh cycles. Global data center revenue rose 39% to $263 million, and data center decommissioning revenue more than doubled, rising more than 100%. About 325 megawatts of available capacity is expected to come online over the next 24 months.
Yield: At about 3.05% on a $3.456 forward dividend, the yield is modest. Iron Mountain makes this list because the payout keeps growing.
Dividend safety: The CFO, Barry Hytinen, put it simply: “On a trailing four-quarter basis, our AFFO payout ratio is now 60%.” Measured against 2026 AFFO per share guidance of $5.87 to $5.93, the forward dividend uses about 58.58% of the midpoint. Net lease-adjusted leverage of 4.8 times is the lowest since the company became a REIT in 2014. The dividend history confirms a fourth consecutive year of increases, with the quarterly payout rising from $0.6185 to $0.864.
Bull case: AFFO per share rose 16% last quarter, and growth businesses now make up 35% of second-quarter revenue. When cash flow grows faster than the dividend, the raises can keep coming without stretching the payout.
Risk: The balance sheet has a lot of debt. Shareholders’ equity is negative at -$955M, and net debt is about $17.3B, so rising interest costs compete with dividend growth for every dollar of AFFO.
Digital Realty: Coverage Keeps Widening on a Frozen Dividend Digital Realty (NYSE:DLR) is a pure-play data center REIT with more than 6,000 customers. It leases everything from single cabinets to entire hyperscale campuses. Its share of backlog gets there its highest level ever at $1.4 billion, and $635 million of annualized rent is scheduled to start in the second half of the year.
Yield: The $4.88 forward dividend on a $177.82 share price yields about 2.74%.
Dividend safety: Measured on Core FFO, coverage is solid. Excluding promote income, Core FFO per share guidance is $8.15 to $8.20, so the dividend uses about 59.69% of the midpoint. Debt to adjusted EBITDA is 4.7 times, and liquidity is about $6 billion. The payout has been $1.22 per share every quarter since the 2022-03-14 ex-dividend date. Before that, it rose steadily from $0.93 to $1.16.
Bull case: Every year the dividend stays flat while Core FFO grows, the buffer under the payout gets larger. The company expects to extend double-digit Core FFO-per-share growth into 2027 and beyond, and the development pipeline is 63% pre-leased.
Risk: Your income isn’t growing. The board is putting cash and stock into expansion, including 12.3 million shares issued in the Blackstone (NYSE:BX | BX Price Prediction) deal, instead of raising the payout.
Equinix: Lowest Yield, Best-Covered Payout Equinix (NASDAQ:EQIX) runs interconnection hubs in 36 countries, where clouds, networks and enterprises plug into each other. It added a record 9,700 net interconnections last quarter. Management said eight of the top 10 model providers and eight of the top 10 neoclouds already run key networking workloads on its platform.
Yield: The forward dividend of $20.64 on a $1,019.39 share price yields about 2.02%. That’s a small yield. Equinix is on this list for dividend growth.
Dividend safety: Management describes the AFFO payout as “in the 50% range”. Against 2026 AFFO per share guidance of $42.69 to $43.29, the forward dividend uses about 48.01% of the midpoint, the best coverage in this group. Net leverage is 3.6 times, liquidity is about $7.7 billion, and the quarterly dividend has gone up every year in the record, from $1.75 to $5.16.
For the bull case, CFO Olivier Leonetti tied the payout directly to cash flow growth: “We expect dividend growth to approximate AFFO per share growth.” The long-term plan calls for AFFO per share growth of 9% to 12% a year through 2029.
On the risk side, capital spending is set to run $5 billion to $7 billion annually through 2029, and management expects leverage to rise by about a turn. That means less free cash flow to speed up dividend growth.
Income From Digital Infrastructure Comes From Coverage All four payouts depend on a small group of very large customers continuing to spend heavily. At Digital Realty, for example, the largest signing in each of the last 10 quarters came from one of six different top hyperscalers. That tenant concentration is a real risk for the whole group. Within those limits, Iron Mountain has the best mix of yield, a verified record of raises and roughly a 60% AFFO payout ratio. American Tower pays the most current income, Equinix has the best-covered payout, and Digital Realty’s improving coverage makes it the dividend raise to watch.
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In late September 2016, Intel (INTC -0.56%) was worth about $177 billion. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD +2.95%) was worth around $6.2 billion. Put another way, the chip giant's market value was about 28 times as big as its smaller rival's.
Ten years later, the order has flipped. AMD's market value is now around $1 trillion, while Intel's is about $622 billion, putting AMD about 60% ahead. AMD even announced a deal on Sept. 28 to buy artificial intelligence (AI) firm World Labs for about $8.2 billion in stock -- more than AMD's total market value a decade ago.
And that happened in a year when Intel shares have more than tripled as I write this. I think how AMD got here says plenty about what Intel's turnaround still needs to prove.
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AMD took the data centerIn 2016, the two companies weren't in the same league. Intel reported revenue of $59.4 billion and operating income of $12.9 billion that year. AMD's revenue was $4.27 billion, and it had an operating loss of $372 million.
What's more, Intel's data center group alone pulled in $17.2 billion, around four times AMD's total sales.
AMD's comeback in servers took years. Mercury Research estimated AMD's share of x86 server processor units at just 3.2% in the fourth quarter of 2018. A year ago, AMD had around 27% of that market. The firm's latest numbers show it at 33.2% in the first quarter of 2026 and 34.5% in the second. So the gains keep coming, seven years after that low. And AMD's share of desktop processors rose from 15.8% to 34.9% in the same stretch.
Showing how far the balance has shifted, AMD's data center segment more than doubled its revenue year over year in the second quarter of 2026, to $6.7 billion. That beat the $6.3 billion for Intel's data center and AI segment, even though Intel's segment grew a strong 59%. Granted, AMD's number includes the graphics processing units it sells for AI, too.
And AMD is now earning more on less. Its second-quarter revenue climbed 50% year over year to $11.5 billion, and its operating income came in at $2.0 billion. Intel's operating income was $1.8 billion on $16.1 billion in revenue. Both swung from operating losses a year before.
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The manufacturing gapBetter chip designs arguably explain some of AMD's climb. But who made the chips might have mattered just as much.
AMD doesn't run its own factories. It released its second generation of EPYC server processors in August 2019, and it built them on what it called "leading-edge 7nm process technology." And in May, AMD said its latest server chips, code-named Venice, were ramping production on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing's 2nm process.
Intel, though, makes chips at its own factories, so falling behind on manufacturing hurt its products directly. In July 2021, then-CEO Pat Gelsinger said Intel was speeding up its roadmap to get it on "a clear path to process performance leadership by 2025." Companies don't normally set that goal if they already hold the lead.
Can Intel's foundry win it back?That history is why the foundry sits at the heart of Intel's turnaround. Its operating loss shrank to $2.1 billion in the second quarter of 2026, from $2.4 billion in the first quarter and $3.2 billion a year before. Revenue grew 31% year over year to $5.8 billion.
But nearly all of that revenue is from Intel itself. Outside customers brought in $293 million of it in the second quarter, around 5% of the total.
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Intel has committed to finishing its next process, 14A. Its second-quarter 10-Q also says the size and speed of its manufacturing build-out will "ultimately be dictated by the amount of committed demand for Intel 14A" -- including from outside customers.
Winning that demand probably takes convincing chip designers like AMD that Intel can make their most advanced products as well as Taiwan Semiconductor can. It's the ground Intel lost, and I'd say the turnaround isn't done until Intel wins some of it back.
True, Intel's business is improving. Its operating income swung to a profit in the second quarter, and the foundry's losses are shrinking. But at around 57 times its expected 2027 earnings, Intel stock is pricier than AMD, the company that overtook it, at about 40 times its expected 2027 earnings.
I think Intel's share price already assumes a lot of that ground has been won back. For now, outside customers still make up around 5% of the foundry's revenue.
CrowdStrike ve 2. fiskálním čtvrtletí zvýšil tržby o 26 % na 1,47 miliardy USD a vedení očekává za fiskální rok 2027 tržby kolem 6 miliard USD. Palo Alto Networks ve 4. fiskálním čtvrtletí fiskálního roku 2026 zvýšil tržby o 34 % na 3,41 miliardy USD.
Cybersecurity spending continues to climb, and artificial intelligence (AI) is creating even more systems that businesses need to protect. In fact, technology research firm Gartner estimates that global information security spending will reach roughly $244 billion in 2026. Gartner also expects spending specifically on AI cybersecurity to nearly double from $25.9 billion in 2025 to $51.3 billion this year. Two companies are particularly well positioned to capture that spending are CrowdStrike (CRWD +1.48%) and Palo Alto Networks (PANW +1.76%).
CrowdStrike CrowdStrike built its reputation protecting computers and other devices from cyberattacks. But its Falcon platform has expanded well beyond that.
Today, CrowdStrike offers 34 cloud-based security modules covering everything from endpoint and cloud security to identity protection, threat intelligence, data protection, and cybersecurity for generative AI. That broad portfolio gives CrowdStrike a strategic advantage. You see, once a business uses Falcon for one security function, CrowdStrike can sell that customer additional products without having to win an entirely new account. In fact, 51% of its subscription customers now use at least six Falcon modules, while 26% use eight or more.
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In its fiscal 2027 second quarter, CrowdStrike generated $1.47 billion in revenue, up 26% year over year. Annual recurring revenue (ARR) increased by 25% to $5.84 billion, while the company added a record $333 million of new ARR during the quarter.
Then there's cash flow. CrowdStrike generated a record $377 million in free cash flow during the quarter, up from $284 million a year earlier. Management now expects fiscal 2027 revenue of approximately $6 billion and ARR of roughly $6.6 billion.
The truth is, companies aren't simply deploying AI software anymore. They're increasingly deploying autonomous AI agents that can access corporate systems, data, and applications. Those agents create another category of digital surface that needs protection.
CrowdStrike is already building security products specifically for AI agents. Its Falcon Guardian platform is designed to discover AI agents operating across an organization, monitor what they're doing, detect suspicious behavior, and stop compromised agents in real time.
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The company has also introduced an Agentic Identity Provider, which gives AI agents their own identities, and controls what applications and data they're allowed to access. As businesses deploy thousands, or potentially millions, of autonomous AI agents, securing those agents could become another significant growth market for CrowdStrike.
Palo Alto Networks Palo Alto Networks offers a slightly different opportunity. The company has spent years expanding beyond traditional network firewalls into cloud security, security operations, identity security, and AI. Now, its strategy is focused on getting customers to consolidate multiple cybersecurity products onto its platforms.
In its fiscal 2026 fourth quarter, revenue increased 34% to $3.41 billion, while next-generation security ARR jumped 63% to $9.1 billion. Remaining performance obligations (essentially contracted business that hasn't yet been recognized as revenue) reached $21.2 billion, up 34%.
For its fiscal 2027, Palo Alto is now forecasting revenue in the range of $14.1 billion to $14.2 billion, which would equate to growth of 23% to 24%, with next-generation security ARR expected to reach roughly $11.1 billion.
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Acquisitions are expanding the business, too. Early this year, Palo Alto bought identity-security specialist CyberArk and cloud observability company Chronosphere, strengthening its ability to protect identities, applications, and infrastructure across increasingly complicated corporate networks.
Two expensive stocks with long runways Neither stock is particularly cheap, and that's probably the biggest risk for investors. Cybersecurity is also fiercely competitive. Diversified tech giants like Microsoft and Alphabet, as well as a variety of other specialized cybersecurity companies, are all fighting for slices of the same corporate technology budgets.
But cybersecurity isn't discretionary in the same way many other technology products are. A company might choose to delay buying new computers, but it can't simply stop protecting its network, customer information, cloud infrastructure, and increasingly its AI systems.
CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks are turning that necessity into growing recurring revenue and billions of dollars in cash flow. So if you're willing to hold on through the inevitable volatility that comes with high-growth technology stocks, both companies have the financial strength, recurring revenue, and expanding markets needed to potentially compound for many years.
Marvell Technology ve čtvrtletí zvýšila tržby o 37 % na 2,74 miliardy USD a zisk na akcii o 40 % na 0,94 USD. Firma navíc v tomto čtvrtletí očekává tržby kolem 3,15 miliardy USD.
Marvell Technology (MRVL +1.57%) started 2026 at about $85 per share. As I write, it's near $263 -- more than triple where it began the year.
A gain like that can leave little for the next buyer. But the chipmaker's growth is speeding up, and management sees revenue rising about 50% to about $18 billion in fiscal 2028, which ends in January 2028.
I think this growth can lift the stock to around $527 by the end of 2031. That'd be double today's price, or a return of about 14% a year, and it doesn't need a higher valuation than the stock has now.
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Growth is still speeding upShowing how fast demand is building, Marvell's revenue for the quarter ended Aug. 1 (the fiscal second quarter of 2027) rose 37% year over year to $2.74 billion. Revenue growth has now accelerated for two straight quarters, up from 22% in the period ended in January and 28% in the quarter after it. Data center revenue, which was 79% of the total, climbed 46%, up from 27% in the previous quarter. And management guided for around $3.15 billion of revenue this quarter, which would mean growth of over 50%.
Profits are keeping up. Earnings per share on a non-GAAP (adjusted) basis rose 40% to $0.94, and the adjusted operating margin widened by 1.8 percentage points to 36.6%. Chief financial officer Dan Durn said the margin will probably hit the company's 38% to 40% target range in the fiscal fourth quarter.
Custom chips and optics fuel the growthMuch of the growth comes from two businesses. The first is custom chips, which Marvell designs for one cloud customer's own artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Management expects custom revenue to more than double in fiscal 2028.
CEO Matt Murphy has talked about custom revenue of over $10 billion in fiscal 2029, and he sounded even more confident on the fiscal second-quarter earnings call.
"But clearly, there's a lot of upside bias in those numbers in fiscal '29 and beyond in custom," Murphy said.
Much of that confidence traces to Google, a unit of Alphabet. In August, Marvell granted Google a warrant to buy up to around 59 million Marvell shares. Most of them vest in stages -- one for every $500 million in custom chips Google buys through fiscal 2033, up to $120 billion total.
Google, of course, hasn't promised to buy that much. But the setup shows how big the relationship could grow.
The second business is optical connectivity, the chips in the links that move data between AI servers. When management lifted its outlook in May, it pointed to strong demand for its products in the latest 1.6-terabit optical links, plus optics that connect AI chips in one system.
What would it take to double?At around $263, shares sell for about 39 times the earnings forecast for fiscal 2028, or about twice the forward price-to-earnings ratio of about 19 for the S&P 500 (^GSPC +0.73%). For a business expecting 50% revenue growth next year, I'd call the premium fair.
Now keep the price-to-earnings multiple at 39. By the end of 2031, investors will probably value Marvell using its fiscal 2033 earnings. For the stock to double, then, fiscal 2033 earnings have to be twice the fiscal 2028 number, which takes about 15% yearly earnings growth over those five years.
If margins and the share count stay flat, revenue would need to rise from management's $18 billion forecast for fiscal 2028 to about $36 billion by fiscal 2033. By comparison, the Google warrant alone is built around as much as $120 billion in custom chip purchases through fiscal 2033, an average of over $18 billion a year.
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Sure, the path has risks. Custom chips have lower gross margins than Marvell's other products, and management guided the adjusted gross margin for the fiscal third quarter to between 57.5% and 58.5%, down from 58.9%. AI spending might also slow long before 2031.
But 15% a year is far below the rate Marvell is growing now. And if revenue rises faster than that after fiscal 2028, the stock might double even if its valuation multiple drops.
Marvell holds an investor day in New York on Tuesday, Oct. 6, and new long-term targets might come with it. But this forecast doesn't need them to beat today's outlook.
Can Marvell stock double again by the end of 2031? I think it can, and I'd consider buying shares at today's price, maybe a bit at a time. The stock lost around half its value between its June peak and late July, and it might drop that much again.
Bristol Myers Squibb se obchoduje za 9,4násobek forwardových zisků na akcii, pod průměrem zdravotnictví 18,5násobku. Ve 2. čtvrtletí výnosy vzrostly o 6 % na zhruba 13 miliard USD a non-GAAP EPS vyskočil o 40 % na 2,04 USD.
After several years of poor performance, Bristol Myers Squibb (BMY +0.53%) is bouncing back. The company's shares are up 42% over the trailing 12-month period, while the S&P 500 has climbed just 15%. Could there be more upside ahead for the pharmaceutical giant? There are some reasons to think so. Bristol Myers is trading at just 9.4x forward earnings, versus an average of 18.5x for healthcare stocks.
Is Bristol Myers a great value play to buy now?
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Not out of the woods just yet Bristol Myers' troubles in recent years stem in part from patent cliffs. The company has lost patent exclusivity for such products as Revlimid, a cancer medicine that used to be its top-selling drug.
The drugmaker will experience more patent cliffs through the end of the decade. Notably, Bristol Myers' Opdivo, a cancer drug, and Eliquis, an anticoagulant it shares the right to with Pfizer (PFE -1.14%), will both run out of patent exclusivity in the U.S. How could this impact the company's financial results?
Consider that in the second quarter, Bristol Myers' revenue increased by 6% year over year to about $13 billion. The company's non-GAAP earnings per share jumped 40% year over year to $2.04. Eliquis' sales contributed $4.5 billion, up 22% year over year. So, Eliquis alone accounted for almost 35% of Bristol Myers' top line. Opdivo contributed another $2.5 billion, although its sales dropped by 3% year over year.
So, together these two products accounted for more than half of Bristol Myers' total revenue. That may be one reason the company's forward price-to-earnings is low: The market expects revenue and earnings growth to slow -- and perhaps reverse -- once Bristol Myers starts facing generic and biosimilar competition for Eliquis and Opdivo.
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During the second quarter, Reblozyl's sales jumped 29% year over year to $735 million.
Reblozyl should remain a meaningful growth driver for the foreseeable future, but perhaps the most important relatively new approval in Bristol Myers' portfolio is Opdivo Qvantig, a subcutaneous version of the highly successful cancer medicine -- the original formulation is administered via intravenous infusion.
Opdivo Qvantig is much faster and easier to administer. Its convenience could help it retain many of the patients from its original formulation after it loses patent exclusivity. In fact, as Bristol Myers pointed out, second-quarter Opdivo sales declined partly because some patients switched to Opdivo Qvantig.
That's great news for the company's medium-term prospects. Still, Bristol Myers will need to launch brand-new products to fully address its upcoming patent cliffs. The pharmaceutical company is also capable of doing that. Bristol Myers has several promising pipeline candidates that could make significant progress over the next few years.
For instance, Bristol Myers is developing pumitamig, an investigational bispecific antibody (a newer class of medicines showing tremendous promise, particularly in oncology). Bristol Myers is working on this program with BioNTech (BNTX +0.05%). Pumitamig is undergoing clinical trials across several potential indications and could potentially become a pipeline-in-a-drug.
Bristol Myers' pipeline also features milvexian, an investigational anticoagulant that could become the heir to Eliquis, provided ongoing clinical trials go well. These are just some of the company's most promising candidates. Its deep pipeline features many more.
What's your investing timeline? Bristol Myers may not perform well over the next couple of years as its patent cliffs approach. But the company's approved portfolio and pipeline look strong enough to help it weather the storm and recover. In addition, Bristol Myers is a solid dividend stock. The company offers a forward yield of 4%, compared to an average of 1.1% for the S&P 500, and has increased its payouts by 65.8% over the past decade.
These are all good reasons Bristol Myers' shares are attractive at current levels, at least for investors intending to hold onto the stock for at least five years.
Orvana prodloužila splatnost svého zajištěného předplaceného úvěru ve výši 25 milionů USD o šest měsíců z prosince 2026 na červen 2027. Úprava má lépe sladit splácení s rozjezdem projektu Don Mario Oxides Stockpile Project v Bolívii.
, /PRNewswire/ -- Orvana Minerals Corp. (TSX: ORV) (OTCQX: ORVMF) (the "Company" or "Orvana") announces that its Bolivian subsidiary, Empresa Minera Paitití, S.A. ("EMIPA"), has entered into an amendment (the "Amendment") to its US$25million secured prepayment facility with Trafigura Pte. Ltd. (the "Prepayment Facility"), first announced on November6, 2025.
The principal modification under the Amendment is the extension of the final maturity date of the Prepayment Facility by six(6) months, from December 2026 to June 2027, to better align the repayment schedule with the production ramp-up profile of the Don Mario Oxides Stockpile Project.
ABOUT ORVANA – Orvana is a multi-mine gold-copper-silver company. Orvana's assets consist of the producing El Valle and Carlés gold-copper-silver mines in northern Spain, the Don Mario gold-copper-silver property in Bolivia, which is ramping up production of copper cathodes and gold-silver doré from its oxides stockpile, and the Taguas property located in Argentina. Additional information is available at Orvana's website (www.orvana.com).
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Forward-looking information in this news release is based on a number of material assumptions, including that: the ramp-up of the Don Mario oxide stockpile operation proceeds substantially as currently planned; metallurgical recoveries, throughput and operating costs are consistent with management's expectations; gold, silver and copper prices remain at levels that support expected cash flow from Don Mario; Trafigura performs its obligations under the Prepayment Facility and the offtake agreements; and no material disruption occurs to operations or permitting, or in the political and economic environment in Bolivia. Although management considers these assumptions reasonable based on information currently available, they may prove to be incorrect.
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Meta Platforms v září vzrostla o 25 % díky spuštění AI agenta Meta Muse. Trh teď čeká na výsledky hospodaření za 3. čtvrtletí a první reakci na nový produkt.
Meta Platforms (META +0.30%). was one of Wall Street's best-performing stocks in September. It rose 25% during the month, turning around what had up to that point been a down year for the stock.
The major catalyst in the quarter was the launch of Meta Muse, an AI agent built for everyday use for the masses. This completely shifted the AI narrative around Meta's stock, causing the market to shift from bearish to bullish.
But with the calendar flipping to October, will the market still love the stock?
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Meta finally released a monetizable AI product Previously, the biggest complaint investors had about Meta Platforms as an AI investment was that it seemed to be giving everything away for free, despite investing hundreds of billions of dollars into building AI data centers. With no obvious payoff for those investments in sight, investors were left scratching their heads about when and where the profits would come from.
This caused investors who were familiar with Meta's failed metaverse vision to experience déjà vu. As a result, the stock wasn't highly valued. But all of that flipped shortly after the launch of Muse.
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Muse is one of the first AI agents built for everyday use. The AI agent can be tasked with multistep activities such as building a schedule, checking calendars, or booking travel on your behalf.
While it is technically free to use, the free tier has a relatively low monthly usage cap. Meta is betting that many people will find Muse useful enough that they will start burning through their tokens and eventually decide to pay for a subscription tier with a much higher ceiling. If that happens, the subscription services could lead to strong revenue and profit growth, which investors love.
The market sees the vision and is buying into it, which is why the stock had such a fantastic September. But what's ahead for October?
Late this month, Meta Platforms will report its third-quarter results, and Muse will likely be one of the primary topics of discussion. Investors will likely hear more about early adoption numbers and the long-term vision for this product. If the market likes what it hears, the stock could end the month strong. However, Meta no longer has the "cheap" factor going for it. While it was trading at bargain levels for some time, its September rally drove it back to a normal valuation range.
Meta's stock is no longer trading at a discount Before its rally, Meta's stock traded at less than 18 times expected forward earnings -- near its lowest valuation of the past three years.
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Today, it is trading toward the upper end of its usual valuation range. Still, there's room for more. While some of Meta's peers' price-to-earnings (P/E) ratios are currently being skewed by one-time gains on investments, the average big tech firm tends to trade in the high 20s to the low 30s times forward earnings valuation range.
That leaves plenty of room for upside if the market gets really bullish on Meta's prospects. Still, I don't see that happening until after its Q3 results are released, when the initial reception of Muse is accounted for.
As a result, I don't think we'll see a repeat of September for Meta's stock in October, but its future looks brighter than it has been in awhile. If Muse is widely accepted and becomes a popular subscription product, the stock will have a lot more potential for upside, because there isn't a ton of growth priced into it now at just 23 times forward earnings.
That could make Meta an AI stock worth buying for the long term, as it has one of the best consumer-facing platforms for AI deployment.
Record September ADV of 31.8 million contracts Record Q3 ADV of 29.4 million contracts Record September and Q3 ADV for interest rate and agricultural products , /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today reported its average daily volume (ADV) reached new records for September, with 31.8 million contracts, up 22% year-over-year, and Q3 with 29.4 million contracts, up 16% year-over-year. Both September and Q3 volumes exceeded prior records set in 2024. Market statistics are available in greater detail at https://cmegroupinc.gcs-web.com/monthly-volume.
September 2026 monthly highlights across asset classes include:
Interest Rate ADV increased 22% to 16.2 million contracts U.S. Treasury futures and options ADV increased 42% to 9.5 million contracts 10-Year U.S. Treasury Note futures ADV increased 51% to 2.6 million contracts 5-Year U.S. Treasury Note futures ADV increased 47% to 1.9 million contracts 2-Year U.S. Treasury Note futures ADV increased 67% to 1.3 million contracts 10-Year U.S. Treasury Note options ADV increased 17% to 1.1 million contracts SOFR futures ADV increased 15% to 4.6 million contracts Equity Index ADV increased 16% to 8.1 million contracts Micro E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures ADV increased 73% to 2.4 million contracts E-mini S&P 500 futures ADV increased 12% to 1.8 million contracts Micro E-mini S&P 500 futures ADV increased 7% to 1.1 million contracts Energy ADV increased 37% to 3.1 million contracts Henry Hub Natural Gas futures ADV increased 20% to 602,000 contracts Micro WTI Crude Oil futures ADV increased 376% to 240,000 contracts RBOB Gasoline futures ADV increased 27% to 224,000 contracts Agricultural ADV increased 29% to 1.9 million contracts Corn futures ADV increased 62% to 461,000 contracts Soybean futures ADV increased 35% to 289,000 contracts Foreign Exchange ADV increased 32% to 1.4 million contracts Japanese Yen futures ADV increased 63% to 310,000 contracts Mexican Peso futures ADV increased 98% to 130,000 contracts Metals ADV of 1 million contracts Micro Gold futures ADV increased 21% to 378,000 contracts Micro Silver futures ADV increased 61% to 58,000 contracts Cryptocurrency ADV of 174,000 contracts ($8.6 billion notional) International ADV increased 25% to 9.7 million contracts, with EMEA ADV up 22% to 7 million contracts and APAC ADV up 33% to 2.3 million contracts Micro Products ADV Micro E-mini Equity Index futures and options ADV of 3.7 million contracts represented 45% of overall Equity Index ADV, Micro Energy futures accounted for 8% of overall Energy ADV and Micro Metals futures accounted for 53% of overall Metals ADV BrokerTec overall average daily notional value (ADNV) increased 18% to $1.135 trillion in September, including record single-day volume of $1.261 trillion on September 30 U.S. Repo ADNV increased 1% to $406 billion European Repo ADNV increased 25% to €374 billion U.S. Treasury ADNV increased 29% to $115 billion EBS Spot FX ADNV increased 24% to $72 billion and FX Link ADV increased 92% to a record 81,000 contracts ($7.7 billion notional per leg) Customer average collateral balances to meet performance bond requirements for rolling 3-months ending August 2026 were $145.6 billion for cash collateral and $165.7 billion for non-cash collateral Q3 2026 quarterly highlights across asset classes include:
Interest Rate ADV increased 13% to 15.1 million contracts U.S. Treasury futures and options ADV increased 25% to 9.4 million contracts 10-Year U.S. Treasury Note futures ADV increased 27% to 2.5 million contracts 5-Year U.S. Treasury Note futures ADV increased 13% to 1.9 million contracts 2-Year U.S. Treasury Note futures ADV increased 37% to 1.3 million contracts 10-Year U.S. Treasury Note options ADV increased 26% to 1.1 million contracts SOFR futures ADV increased 3% to 3.8 million contracts Equity Index ADV increased 23% to 7.7 million contracts Micro E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures ADV increased 101% to 2.6 million contracts E-mini S&P 500 futures ADV increased 11% to 1.5 million contracts Micro E-mini S&P 500 futures ADV increased 10% to 1 million contracts Energy ADV increased 16% to 2.7 million contracts Micro WTI Crude Oil futures ADV increased 238% to 190,000 contracts Agricultural ADV increased 18% to 2 million contracts Corn futures ADV increased 35% to 500,000 contracts Soybean Oil futures ADV increased 21% to 207,000 contracts Foreign Exchange ADV increased 19% to 988,000 contracts Japanese Yen futures ADV increased 49% to 220,000 contracts Metals ADV increased 13% to 935,000 contracts Micro Gold futures ADV increased 43% to 336,000 contracts Micro Silver futures ADV increased 129% to 57,000 contracts Cryptocurrency ADV of 196,000 contracts ($7.3 billion notional) As the world's leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, cryptocurrencies, energy, agricultural products and metals. The company offers futures and options on futures trading through the CME Globex platform, fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing.
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CME Group stahuje plán na spuštění nového futures kontraktu na 10 barelů ropy. Firma uvedla, že 24/7 obchodování v energetice může bez dalšího prověření přinést další rizika.
, /PRNewswire/ -- Today, CME Group provided the following statement about its plans to suspend launch of a new 10-Barrel Crude Oil futures contract:
"Providing efficient, regulated markets that allow our clients to cost-effectively manage business risk is always our top priority at CME Group," said CME Group Chairman and Chief Executive Terry Duffy. "We created and planned to launch a 10-Barrel oil contract to provide a transparent, regulated alternative to the 24/7 oil contracts that other venues have introduced in the marketplace. Whether as onshore prediction markets or offshore perpetuals, which are illegal for U.S. participants but may be accessed despite their illegality via virtual private networks, these energy products already trade around the clock, primarily for retail participants.
"We had hoped to provide a safer, more transparent alternative, within the U.S. jurisdiction and CFTC oversight. However, based on extensive conversations with industry participants, we have determined that key constituents are concerned that introducing 24/7 trading in energy without further due diligence could create unintended consequences, possibly introducing additional risk in the marketplace.
"Therefore, we are withdrawing our filing to launch this product at this time. We hope the CFTC will address the inequity, reestablish the level playing field that has made U.S. financial markets the envy of the world, and ensure all derivatives products meet the standards the law requires, in compliance with the core principles of the Commodity Exchange Act."
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Bloom Energy má díky poptávce po AI backlog ve výši 6 miliard USD, meziročně vyšší o 140 %. Akcie za rok vzrostly téměř o 300 %, ale oceňování zůstává extrémní při P/E nad 380x.
For years, Bloom Energy (BE +4.17%) lost money as it worked to perfect its hydrogen fuel cells. Even as the technology improved, it still wasn't clear that there was a huge market opportunity. Artificial intelligence (AI) has dramatically changed the story. The only problem is that Wall Street is pricing in a lot of good news, with Bloom Energy's price-to-earnings ratio sitting at a shockingly high 380x. Can the business live up to investor expectations?
The bull case for Bloom Energy Bloom Energy's original focus was on developing a technology that would provide clean energy. The main byproducts of using hydrogen to produce electricity are heat and water. This is good, but not necessarily enough to make Bloom Energy a winner. However, the fact that the company's fuel cells can provide clean, remote, off-grid power has suddenly become very important. Artificial intelligence is a power-hungry technology, and the electric grid is struggling to keep pace with demand. Bloom Energy's hydrogen fuel cells enable AI data centers to come online more quickly.
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Basically, all of the puzzle pieces came together, and Bloom Energy is in the right place at the right time. The company ended 2025 with its $6 billion product backlog up 140% year over year. The company only releases its backlog once a year, but it is highly likely that the backlog has continued to grow in 2026. Investors have taken notice, with Bloom Energy's stock price rising nearly 300% over the past year, as of this writing.
The problem is that Bloom Energy doesn't have a strong track record of profitability. In fact, the company has yet to produce a profit in any full calendar year. That's likely to change in 2026, thanks to the huge demand coming from AI. But after the massive stock price advance, investors are pricing in a lot of good news, leaving the stock's trailing price-to-earnings ratio at over 380x.
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In order for that P/E ratio to make sense, the company will have to grow into its valuation. To be fair, earnings growth has been impressive so far in 2026. If you annualize the most recent quarterly earnings of roughly $0.60 per share, the P/E ratio would drop to roughly 120x. That's still very high, but a lot easier to stomach than 380x. And with a large backlog, there's a strong reason to believe earnings will continue to grow. However, if AI spending slows, investors are likely to rethink the valuation they have afforded Bloom Energy.
Bloom Energy has a fallback That said, Bloom Energy's entire backlog entering 2026 was $20 billion, with long-term service contracts accounting for most of the total. Every hydrogen fuel cell placed in service comes along with a service contract that provides an annuity-like income stream. That provides a revenue backstop for when the AI growth story comes to an end. While this is good for the business, it probably won't be enough to maintain the stock's lofty valuation if AI spending eventually slows.
In other words, only the most aggressive growth investors should probably consider buying Bloom Energy today. And even then, it would be best if you also believe that the AI bubble that many on Wall Street are talking about is nowhere near bursting.
Brixmor Property Group koupí Slate Grocery REIT v transakci za 2,34 mld. USD. Firma očekává, že obchod bude od uzavření okamžitě zvyšovat FFO na akcii.
Brixmor Property Group NYSE: BRX said it has entered definitive agreements with Everview Partners to acquire Slate Grocery REIT, a Canadian-listed owner of U.S. grocery-anchored shopping centers, in a transaction valued at $2.34 billion.
Under the transaction structure, Brixmor will directly acquire 23 grocery-anchored shopping centers comprising about 3 million square feet for $636 million. A newly formed joint venture between Brixmor and affiliates of Everview will acquire the remaining 92 properties, totaling about 12 million square feet, for $1.71 billion.
Brixmor will hold a 20% interest in the joint venture, while Everview will own 80%. The company will serve as the venture’s asset manager, property manager and leasing representative, creating recurring fee income. Brixmor also plans to make a $174 million preferred-equity investment in the venture carrying a 9% dividend.
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The transaction has been approved by Brixmor’s board and Slate’s board of trustees and is expected to close in the first quarter of 2027, subject to Slate unitholder approval and customary closing conditions.
Portfolio Focused on Grocery-Anchored Retail CEO and President Brian Finnegan said the acquisition fits Brixmor’s strategy of investing in grocery-anchored, open-air retail centers and applying its leasing, redevelopment and operating platform to drive growth.
The 23 properties Brixmor will own outright are 96% leased and located entirely within the company’s current footprint, with concentrations in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. The portfolio is fully grocery anchored, with tenants including Publix, Harris Teeter and Kroger.
The joint venture’s 92 properties are 94% grocery anchored, and about 70% are located in markets where Brixmor already operates. Finnegan said the company expects to use its retailer relationships and leasing platform to pursue long-term net operating income growth across both portfolios consistent with Brixmor’s long-term 4% growth expectation.
Management cited several potential value-creation opportunities, including small-shop leasing, merchandising changes, rent growth, redevelopment, improved expense recoveries and specialty income. While the overall acquired portfolio is substantially occupied, Finnegan said small-shop occupancy is 88%, presenting an opportunity for improvement.
In-place rents across the portfolios average more than 30% below Brixmor’s current portfolio, management said, and several legacy anchor leases carry rents below $9 per square foot. Slate also generated mid-teens renewal growth in the past year and new-lease growth near 40%, according to Finnegan.
Redevelopment and Pricing Brixmor identified about $100 million of redevelopment and outparcel-development opportunities in the directly acquired portfolio. Those projects include multiple Publix redevelopments in high-growth Southeastern markets, and Finnegan said the company expects to begin pursuing some opportunities immediately after closing.
The company characterized the overall transaction as priced at a low-7% yield. Finnegan said the directly acquired real estate carries a cap rate in the high-6% range, while the joint venture properties are priced at a low- to mid-7% cap rate. The yield on Brixmor’s overall investment includes the preferred-equity investment and a conservative estimate of recurring fee income, management said.
Chief Investment Officer Mark Horgan said the real estate yields discussed on the call were before fees and that Brixmor views the portfolio as attractively priced relative to current pricing for individual open-air retail assets. Finnegan also cited a purchase price of approximately $155 per square foot, which he said is below replacement cost.
The company said the transaction will be immediately accretive to Nareit funds from operations per share and accretive to adjusted funds from operations and free cash flow from day one. Management said it expects to provide more detailed accretion guidance when it issues 2027 guidance and closes the transaction.
Funding Plan and Joint Venture Leverage Brixmor said it has sized its investment at approximately $1 billion, including its preferred-equity investment, to limit capital-markets dependency. The company has $1 billion in interim financing commitments and reported $1.5 billion of liquidity at the end of the second quarter.
The company expects to fund approximately $300 million with cash on hand, including $115 million of unsettled forward at-the-market proceeds. About $500 million is expected to come from debt, including roughly $95 million of assumed mortgages, while normal capital recycling is expected to fund the remainder. Brixmor said it does not expect to need to issue equity at current trading levels.
Finnegan said Brixmor intends to maintain leverage consistent with recent levels, targeting low- to mid-5-times debt to EBITDA in 2027. The joint venture will carry more leverage than Brixmor’s wholly owned balance sheet assets. Horgan said the venture is expected to assume about $513 million of mortgage debt with maturities into the 2030s and rates in the low-4% range, with overall joint venture leverage expected in the low-60% range.
While Brixmor does not plan to sell any of the 23 wholly owned assets, Finnegan said the joint venture may pursue some strategic dispositions as part of its business plan. He added that Brixmor does not expect adverse tax implications from the transaction.
Management said the joint venture structure enabled Brixmor to preserve financial flexibility while partnering with Everview, whose investment group includes ADIA. Finnegan said the structure also could provide Brixmor with potential future acquisition opportunities from the joint venture portfolio.
About Brixmor Property Group (NYSE:BRX)Brixmor Property Group Inc NYSE: BRX is a real estate investment trust that owns and operates open-air shopping centers in the United States. Its properties are generally anchored by grocery stores and serve communities with a mix of essential retail, dining, service, and other consumer-oriented businesses.
The company's activities include leasing retail space, managing shopping-center operations, and investing in property redevelopment and improvements. Brixmor focuses on maintaining well-located centers and strengthening tenant mixes to support the long-term needs of the communities in which its properties are located.
Brixmor was formed in 2011 and became a publicly traded company in 2013.
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EchoStar (ECHO +6.80%) was quite the star company in the eyes of many investors on Friday. A key subsidiary has emerged from bankruptcy, and at a stroke, significantly cleaned its parent's balance sheet. Mr. Market rewarded this progress by enthusiastically buying EchoStar shares; they closed that trading session almost 7% higher.
Exit stage rightEchoStar disclosed in a regulatory filing that its Dish DBS subsidiary, anchored by the Dish TV satellite offering and Sling TV streaming service, exited Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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While in that state, Dish DBS reduced its indebtedness by roughly $4.35 billion, according to EchoStar. That's considerable, as the company's long-term indebtedness stood at over $16.2 billion at the end of June.
When it filed for Chapter 11 that month, EchoStar aimed to bundle both Dish DBS and its mobile telephony unit, Dish Wireless, into a single filing. A judge in a federal bankruptcy court ruled, however, that they were to be treated separately. The Dish Wireless bankruptcy remains ongoing.
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Apple změní macOS, aby jasněji upozorňoval, když AI agenti žádají o přístup ke všem datům na Macu. Reaguje tak na kritiku kolem Meta Muse a obav o soukromé zprávy.
Apple (AAPL.O) said on Friday that it plans to change its Mac operating system to make it more obvious when AI agents ask to access all of the data on Macs.
Some users have criticized Meta's (META.O) Muse, an AI agent capable of carrying out complex tasks like canceling unused subscriptions or haggling for better prices. These people claimed the agent accessed what users believed to be private messages.
On Apple's iPhones and iPads, no single app can access data inside another app by default, a technique called sandboxing. But Apple's Macs are more flexible, with a "Full Disk Access" option that allows apps such as cloud backup services to access all the data on a machine, with a user's permission.
Apple on Friday said some developers were using the Full Disk Access feature in ways that could put users at risk.
"Going forward, we will introduce additional controls to ensure that users who genuinely wish to grant an app this extraordinary level of access can only do so with very explicit user action," Apple wrote in a post.
"As AI agents become increasingly capable and autonomous, the risks associated with this level of access will grow substantially. We are committed to ensuring users clearly understand these risks before granting such access, so they can make informed decisions about their own data and privacy."
Apple's move comes after Inc magazine technology columnist Jason Aten accused Meta's Muse of reading private messages on his Mac. He said he had not enabled Full Disk Access.
Meta spokesperson Andy Stone pushed back against those claims last week, saying Muse's access to Apple's Messages app is strictly opt-in.
"You have to enable both Full Disk Access and the Messages connector for Muse to be able to read your Messages content," Stone wrote on social media platform X. "It can't read your Messages unless you do this. And it can be revoked at any time."
Apple declined to comment beyond its post. Meta did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In the latest close session, Alibaba (BABA - Free Report) was down 1.49% at $105.85. The stock's performance was behind the S&P 500's daily gain of 0.73%. On the other hand, the Dow registered a gain of 0.49%, and the technology-centric Nasdaq increased by 1.19%.
The online retailer's stock has dropped by 3.9% in the past month, exceeding the Retail-Wholesale sector's loss of 4.61% and lagging the S&P 500's gain of 0.55%.
Investors will be eagerly watching for the performance of Alibaba in its upcoming earnings disclosure. The company's upcoming EPS is projected at $1.49, signifying a 144.26% increase compared to the same quarter of the previous year. Our most recent consensus estimate is calling for quarterly revenue of $40.63 billion, up 16.73% from the year-ago period.
For the full year, the Zacks Consensus Estimates are projecting earnings of $6.41 per share and revenue of $166.96 billion, which would represent changes of +64.78% and +14.83%, respectively, from the prior year.
Additionally, investors should keep an eye on any recent revisions to analyst forecasts for Alibaba. These recent revisions tend to reflect the evolving nature of short-term business trends. Therefore, positive revisions in estimates convey analysts' confidence in the business performance and profit potential.
Our research demonstrates that these adjustments in estimates directly associate with imminent stock price performance. To benefit from this, we have developed the Zacks Rank, a proprietary model which takes these estimate changes into account and provides an actionable rating system.
The Zacks Rank system, stretching from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), has a noteworthy track record of outperforming, validated by third-party audits, with stocks rated #1 producing an average annual return of +25% since the year 1988. Within the past 30 days, our consensus EPS projection has moved 1.93% lower. At present, Alibaba boasts a Zacks Rank of #4 (Sell).
In terms of valuation, Alibaba is presently being traded at a Forward P/E ratio of 16.77. For comparison, its industry has an average Forward P/E of 15.14, which means Alibaba is trading at a premium to the group.
One should further note that BABA currently holds a PEG ratio of 1.3. This metric is used similarly to the famous P/E ratio, but the PEG ratio also takes into account the stock's expected earnings growth rate. The average PEG ratio for the Internet - Commerce industry stood at 1.15 at the close of the market yesterday.
The Internet - Commerce industry is part of the Retail-Wholesale sector. This industry, currently bearing a Zacks Industry Rank of 191, finds itself in the bottom 23% echelons of all 250+ industries.
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Micron Technology byla zvýšena na Buy díky zrychlujícím se Strategic Customer Agreements, které zvyšují dlouhodobou viditelnost tržeb a cenovou sílu. Více než 35 % odhadovaných tržeb pro rok 2030 je už zajištěno.
SummaryMicron Technology, Inc. is upgraded to Buy, driven by accelerating Strategic Customer Agreements (SCAs) that enhance long-term revenue visibility and pricing power.Q4 FY26 results showed robust sequential growth, with DRAM and NAND prices rising sharply and margins spiking due to tight supply-demand dynamics.Over 35% of estimated 2030 revenue is now secured via SCAs, many with defined pricing bands and significant customer cash deposits, extending longer-term visibility.Despite strong fundamentals and a compelling forward P/E of 5.5 for 2028, MU and MUU investors should monitor AI capex trends and potential cyclicality risks post-2028. imaginima/iStock via Getty Images
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TSMC v poslední obchodní seanci posílila o 2,96 % na 472,78 USD a za měsíc přidala 10,12 %. Trh očekává výsledky 15. října 2026; EPS má být 4,45 USD a tržby 45,62 miliardy USD.
TSMC (TSM - Free Report) closed the most recent trading day at $472.78, moving +2.96% from the previous trading session. The stock outpaced the S&P 500's daily gain of 0.73%. At the same time, the Dow added 0.49%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq gained 1.19%.
The stock of chip company has risen by 10.12% in the past month, leading the Computer and Technology sector's gain of 6.36% and the S&P 500's gain of 0.55%.
The upcoming earnings release of TSMC will be of great interest to investors. The company's earnings report is expected on October 15, 2026. The company's upcoming EPS is projected at $4.45, signifying a 52.40% increase compared to the same quarter of the previous year. Meanwhile, our latest consensus estimate is calling for revenue of $45.62 billion, up 37.83% from the prior-year quarter.
For the full year, the Zacks Consensus Estimates project earnings of $16.56 per share and a revenue of $167.92 billion, demonstrating changes of +55.49% and +37.17%, respectively, from the preceding year.
Investors might also notice recent changes to analyst estimates for TSMC. These revisions help to show the ever-changing nature of near-term business trends. As a result, upbeat changes in estimates indicate analysts' favorable outlook on the business health and profitability.
Our research demonstrates that these adjustments in estimates directly associate with imminent stock price performance. To utilize this, we have created the Zacks Rank, a proprietary model that integrates these estimate changes and provides a functional rating system.
The Zacks Rank system, stretching from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), has a noteworthy track record of outperforming, validated by third-party audits, with stocks rated #1 producing an average annual return of +25% since the year 1988. The Zacks Consensus EPS estimate has moved 0.27% higher within the past month. Right now, TSMC possesses a Zacks Rank of #2 (Buy).
From a valuation perspective, TSMC is currently exchanging hands at a Forward P/E ratio of 27.73. For comparison, its industry has an average Forward P/E of 27.73, which means TSMC is trading at no noticeable deviation to the group.
Investors should also note that TSM has a PEG ratio of 1.02 right now. This popular metric is similar to the widely-known P/E ratio, with the difference being that the PEG ratio also takes into account the company's expected earnings growth rate. The Semiconductor - Circuit Foundry industry currently had an average PEG ratio of 1.02 as of yesterday's close.
The Semiconductor - Circuit Foundry industry is part of the Computer and Technology sector. This group has a Zacks Industry Rank of 7, putting it in the top 3% of all 250+ industries.
The Zacks Industry Rank evaluates the power of our distinct industry groups by determining the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks forming the groups. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
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Intuit v poslední seanci klesl o 1,04 % na 279,84 USD a za poslední měsíc odepsal 17,87 %. Před výsledky trh čeká EPS 2,46 USD, tedy meziroční pokles o 26,35 %.
In the latest trading session, Intuit (INTU - Free Report) closed at $279.84, marking a -1.04% move from the previous day. The stock's performance was behind the S&P 500's daily gain of 0.73%. Meanwhile, the Dow experienced a rise of 0.49%, and the technology-dominated Nasdaq saw an increase of 1.19%.
The maker of TurboTax, QuickBooks and other accounting software's stock has dropped by 17.87% in the past month, falling short of the Computer and Technology sector's gain of 6.36% and the S&P 500's gain of 0.55%.
The upcoming earnings release of Intuit will be of great interest to investors. The company's upcoming EPS is projected at $2.46, signifying a 26.35% drop compared to the same quarter of the previous year. Meanwhile, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for revenue is projecting net sales of $4.3 billion, up 10.8% from the year-ago period.
For the full year, the Zacks Consensus Estimates are projecting earnings of $23.49 per share and revenue of $23.39 billion, which would represent changes of -3.21% and +9.06%, respectively, from the prior year.
Investors should also note any recent changes to analyst estimates for Intuit. These revisions typically reflect the latest short-term business trends, which can change frequently. With this in mind, we can consider positive estimate revisions a sign of optimism about the business outlook.
Our research demonstrates that these adjustments in estimates directly associate with imminent stock price performance. To capitalize on this, we've crafted the Zacks Rank, a unique model that incorporates these estimate changes and offers a practical rating system.
The Zacks Rank system, which varies between #1 (Strong Buy) and #5 (Strong Sell), carries an impressive track record of exceeding expectations, confirmed by external audits, with stocks at #1 delivering an average annual return of +25% since 1988. The Zacks Consensus EPS estimate has moved 2.04% lower within the past month. Intuit is currently a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).
Looking at valuation, Intuit is presently trading at a Forward P/E ratio of 12.04. This valuation marks a discount compared to its industry average Forward P/E of 15.71.
We can additionally observe that INTU currently boasts a PEG ratio of 0.81. This metric is used similarly to the famous P/E ratio, but the PEG ratio also takes into account the stock's expected earnings growth rate. The Computer - Software industry currently had an average PEG ratio of 1.45 as of yesterday's close.
The Computer - Software industry is part of the Computer and Technology sector. At present, this industry carries a Zacks Industry Rank of 104, placing it within the top 43% of over 250 industries.
The Zacks Industry Rank assesses the strength of our separate industry groups by calculating the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks contained within the groups. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
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